Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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More Quintilian Quotes
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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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A liar should have a good memory.
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(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
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Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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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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One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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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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Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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