To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
QUINTILIANVain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
More Quintilian Quotes
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It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
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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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Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.
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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.
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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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She abounds with lucious faults.
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For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
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One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
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