The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
QUINTILIANFear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
More Quintilian Quotes
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Usage is the best language teacher.
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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.
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A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person.
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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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A liar must have a good memory.
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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
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Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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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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A liar should have a good memory.
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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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