The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
QUINTILIANLately we have had many losses.
More Quintilian Quotes
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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Medicine for the dead is too late.
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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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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy’s mind from effort.
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Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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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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It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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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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