Italy Quotes

The perfection of art is to conceal art.
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. the opportunity is lost.
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
He hath freedom whoso beareth clean and constant heart within.
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Adam Weishaupt
Profession
Clergyman
BirthDate
06 February, 1748
DeathDate
18 November, 1830
Country
Germany
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