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It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
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.
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling inot actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
Minds that are stupid and incapable of science are in the order of nature to be regarded as monsters and other extraordinary phenomena; minds of this sort are rare. Hence I conclude that there are great resources to be found in children, which are suffered to vanish with their years. It is evident, therefore, that it is not of nature, but of our own negligence, we ought to complain.
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin, the opportunity is lost.
Lately we have had many losses.
In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
A liar ought to have a good memory.
As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
[Lat., Continuis voluptatibus vicina satietas.]
Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.