Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
QUINTILIANVirtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
More Quintilian Quotes
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A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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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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A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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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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Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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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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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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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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A liar must have a good memory.
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