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For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.

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A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.
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Accompany Average Impression Support
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
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Crowd Journey Seclusion
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
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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Better Born Destruction Dumb Man Neighbor Reason
Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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Change Food Fresh Mindset Stomach
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Appearance Fools Virtue Wisdom
A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling in not actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.
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Equality Follow Himself Man Quite Success
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
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Assistance Capacity Natural Rule

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