To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
QUINTILIANNothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
More Quintilian Quotes
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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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The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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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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Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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