A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
QUINTILIANWe must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
More Quintilian Quotes
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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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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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A liar must have a good memory.
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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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As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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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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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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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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