Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
QUINTILIANWhile we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
More Quintilian Quotes
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(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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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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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Lately we have had many losses.
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Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
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Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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