Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.

Quote by Marcus Fabius Quintilian

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

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

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...

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,...

In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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...

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 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.

Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.

Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.

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.

The perfection of art is to conceal art.

The perfection of art is to conceal art.

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.

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.

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...

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

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