The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
QUINTILIANIt seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
More Quintilian Quotes
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Medicine for the dead is too late.
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
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Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Usage is the best language teacher.
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A liar must have a good memory.
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An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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A liar should have a good memory.
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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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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Lately we have had many losses.
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Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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