A liar should have a good memory.
QUINTILIANNothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
More Quintilian Quotes
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A liar must have a good memory.
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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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It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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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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For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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