There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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 perfection of art is to conceal art.
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One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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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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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.
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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Usage is the best language teacher.
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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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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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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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