As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
QUINTILIANMen, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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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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It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.
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The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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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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