While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. The opportunity is lost.
QUINTILIANAmbition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
More Quintilian Quotes
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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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A liar must have a good memory.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy’s mind from effort.
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An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.
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Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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It is much easier to try one’s hand at many things than to concentrate one’s powers on one thing.
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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
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Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
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Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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