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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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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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Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.
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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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Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.
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A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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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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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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