The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
QUINTILIANThere is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
More Quintilian Quotes
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While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
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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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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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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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Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.
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By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
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An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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