The perfection of art is to conceal art.
From Quintilian
It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin, the opportunity is lost.
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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.
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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