For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.
QUINTILIANThe pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
More Quintilian Quotes
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Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Lately we have had many losses.
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Medicine for the dead is too late.
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From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.
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Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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It is much easier to try one’s hand at many things than to concentrate one’s powers on one thing.
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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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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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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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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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