Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
QUINTILIANA 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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A liar should have a good memory.
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Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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A liar ought to have a good memory.
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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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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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Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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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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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
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Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
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For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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