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Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.

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Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
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
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy’s mind from effort.
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Courage Effort Mistake Severe Teacher Worth
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
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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Father Food Nature Poor Stranger Togetherness
It is much easier to try one’s hand at many things than to concentrate one’s powers on one thing.
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Easy Hand Oneself Power Try
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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One Liner Philosophy Religion
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
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
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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Exercise Mindset Subject Vice Virtue

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