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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
QuintilianQuintilian There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
QuintilianQuintilian Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
QuintilianQuintilian A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
QuintilianQuintilian Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
QuintilianQuintilian (Slaughter) means blood and iron.
QuintilianQuintilian For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
QuintilianQuintilian A liar must have a good memory.
QuintilianQuintilian The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
QuintilianQuintilian A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.
QuintilianQuintilian Lately we have had many losses.
QuintilianQuintilian It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
QuintilianQuintilian Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
QuintilianQuintilian 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.
QuintilianQuintilian While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. The opportunity is lost.
QuintilianQuintilian When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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