Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.

Quote by Marcus Fabius Quintilian

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For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.

For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.

For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void...

For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void...

Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.

Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.

Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.

Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.

A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.

A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.

The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost...

The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost...

While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.

While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.

A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.

A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.

The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.

The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.

We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.

To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.

To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.

God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with...

God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with...

Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.

In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.

Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.

We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.

We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.

Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.

Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.

That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.

That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.

We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.

We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.