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The wildest colts only make the best horses.
The wildest colts only make the best horses.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for read more
Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.
Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best
defence against a knave.
Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best
defence against a knave.
The drop hollows out the stone not by strength, but by constant
falling.
[Lat., Gutta cavat lapidem non read more
The drop hollows out the stone not by strength, but by constant
falling.
[Lat., Gutta cavat lapidem non vi, sed saepe cadendo.]
Not Philip, but Phillip's gold, took the cities of Greece.
Not Philip, but Phillip's gold, took the cities of Greece.
Ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting
solidity or exactness of beauty.
Ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting
solidity or exactness of beauty.
For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is
at least human.
For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is
at least human.
Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of
the world.
Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of
the world.
What, did you not know, then, that to-day Lucullus dines with
Lucullus?
What, did you not know, then, that to-day Lucullus dines with
Lucullus?
