Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
QUINTILIANFor comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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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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For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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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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It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
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A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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A liar ought to have a good memory.
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For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.
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Usage is the best language teacher.
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Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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