Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.

Quote by Marcus Fabius Quintilian

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Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food,...

Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food,...

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.

While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. the opportunity...

While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. the opportunity...

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

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

That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.

That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.

He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks...

He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks...

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

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

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

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

In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

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

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

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...

Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.

Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.

It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.

It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.

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

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

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.

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.

We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.

We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.

Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.

Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.

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

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

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

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