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- Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
- Quintilian
- It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing.
- Quintilian
- Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
- Quintilian
- Oh, treacherous night! thou lendest thy ready veil to every treason, and teeming mischief's beneath thy shade.
- Aaron Hill
- A stern discipline pervades all nature, which is a little cruel that it may be very kind.
- Edmund Spenser (1552 - 1599)
- Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.
- Henri-Frédéric Amiel
- Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- The brightest crowns that are worn in heaven have been tried, and smelted, and polished, and glorified through the furnace of tribulation.
- Edward Chapin
- Afflicted by love's madness all are blind.
- Sextus Propertius (? - 15 BC)
- However often you may have done them a favour, if you once refuse they forget everything except your refusal.
- Pliny the Younger (62 AD - 114 AD)
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