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

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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
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Beginning Herself Learning Nature Touch Virtue
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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Agriculture Profit Student Talent Work
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
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
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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Audience Best Big Pride Teacher Worth
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
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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Direct Eyes Mindset Reach Work

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

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