A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person.
QUINTILIANA man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling in not actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.
More Quintilian Quotes
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The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Usage is the best language teacher.
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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling in not actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.
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A liar ought to have a good memory.
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For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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It is much easier to try one’s hand at many things than to concentrate one’s powers on one thing.
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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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