In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
QUINTILIANIt is the heart which inspires eloquence.
More Quintilian Quotes
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.
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Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
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The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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