Usage is the best language teacher.
QUINTILIANA liar should have a good memory.
More Quintilian Quotes
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Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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Lately we have had many losses.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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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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Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.
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(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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