Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
QUINTILIANFor comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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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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The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.
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The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.
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If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
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Usage is the best language teacher.
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A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
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We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.
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Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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