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Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. the opportunity is lost.
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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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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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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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Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.
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