A liar ought to have a good memory.
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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For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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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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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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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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The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
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One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
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Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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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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She abounds with lucious faults.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
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Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Lately we have had many losses.
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