She abounds with lucious faults.
QUINTILIANBy writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
More Quintilian Quotes
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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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Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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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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Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.
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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.
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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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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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