While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
Quintilian
It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing.
power things hand thing
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue
ambition virtue father vice
While we deliberate about beginning it is all ready too late to begin
beginning begin ready
That laughter costs too much, which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency
sacrifice laughter decency
A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person
women
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
learning pride knowledge humility ignorance
We should not write so that it is possible for the reader to understand us, but so that it is impossible for him to misunderstand us.
writing language
truth
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
art
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.
man nature character
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
change nature
The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
gifts mind nature
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
theend
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
fortune change men
Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
food change mind
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