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Lately we have had many losses.
She abounds with lucious faults.
A liar should have a good memory.
Medicine for the dead is too late
Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
Usage is the best language teacher.
A liar ought to have a good memory.
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
A liar must have a good memory. -Mendacem oportet esse memorem
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.