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Publius Syrus

Many receive advice, only the wise profit by it.

Advice | Character | Receive | Wise |

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Publius Syrus

When you love you are not wise: when you are wise you do not love.

Character | Love | Wise |

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The fountain of beauty is the heart, and every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chamber. If virtue accompanies beauty it is the heart's paradise; if vice be associate with it, it is the soul's purgatory. It is the wise man's bonfire, and the fools furnace.

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Pierre Louis Roederer

True purity of taste is a quality of the mind; it is a feeling which can, with little difficulty, be acquired by the refinement of intelligence; whereas purity of manners is the result of wise habits, in which all the interests of the soul are mingled and in harmony with the progress of intelligence. That is why the harmony of good taste and of good manners is more common than the existence of taste without manners, or of manners without taste.

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Andrew W Robertson

Too often we fix our minds almost entirely upon what we are going to get and give no thought at all as to what we are going to give in return.

Character | Thought | Thought |

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John Charles Salak

Failures are divided into two classes - those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Character | Thought | Thought |

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Theodor Reik

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

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Quintilian, fully Marcus Fabius Quintilianus, also Quintillian and Quinctilian NULL

If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.

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Francis Quarles

Gaze not on beauty too much, lest it blast thee; nor too long, lest it blind thee; nor too near, lest it burn thee. If thou like it, it deceives thee; if thou love it, it disturbs thee; if thou hunt after it, it destroys thee. If virtue accompany it, it is the heart’s paradise; if vice associate it, it is the soul’s purgatory. It is the wise man’s bonfire, and the fool’s furnace.