A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
QUINTILIANFor the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
More Quintilian Quotes
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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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Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Usage is the best language teacher.
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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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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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A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person.
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An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
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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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Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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