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.
QUINTILIANSuffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
More Quintilian Quotes
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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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Lately we have had many losses.
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Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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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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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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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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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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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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A liar must have a good memory.
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