That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
QUINTILIANFor the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
More Quintilian Quotes
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For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling in not actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.
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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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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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Usage is the best language teacher.
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Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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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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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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Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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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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It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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