Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
QUINTILIANIt is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
More Quintilian Quotes
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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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Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Lately we have had many losses.
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Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
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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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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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