Lately we have had many losses.
QUINTILIANFor all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.
More Quintilian Quotes
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A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Usage is the best language teacher.
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It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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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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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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