Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
QUINTILIANWhile we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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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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Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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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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Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
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Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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