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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.

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Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
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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Kind Natural Oneself Separate Soul
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection
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
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Art Feeling Learning Pleasure Reason Understand
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible

The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.

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