A liar should have a good memory.
QUINTILIANTo my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
More Quintilian Quotes
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Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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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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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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For 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.
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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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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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For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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She abounds with lucious faults.
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The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.
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While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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