Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
QUINTILIANThe gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
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He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Lately we have had many losses.
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To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
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A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
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Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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A liar must have a good memory.
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