A liar should have a good memory.
QUINTILIAN
QUINTILIAN
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The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
QuintilianQuintilian A liar ought to have a good memory.
QuintilianQuintilian Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
QuintilianQuintilian It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
QuintilianQuintilian Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
QuintilianQuintilian For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
QuintilianQuintilian That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
QuintilianQuintilian In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
QuintilianQuintilian It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
QuintilianQuintilian Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
QuintilianQuintilian Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
QuintilianQuintilian Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
QuintilianQuintilian Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
QuintilianQuintilian Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
QuintilianQuintilian We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
QuintilianQuintilian While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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