In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
QUINTILIANWe must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
More Quintilian Quotes
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A liar must have a good memory.
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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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For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.
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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
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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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It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
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A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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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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Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.
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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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Lately we have had many losses.
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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.
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Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
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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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For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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