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There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.

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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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Impossible Misunderstand Possible Talk Understand
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
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
The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
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Body Infinite Mindset Nature
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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One Liner Philosophy Religion
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
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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Alone Education Father Myself Parents Possible Regard Restrict
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing

There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.

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