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.
QUINTILIANMen, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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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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Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.
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Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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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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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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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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The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
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