As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
QUINTILIANFor it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
More Quintilian Quotes
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.
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Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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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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Lately we have had many losses.
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Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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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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Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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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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Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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