An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
QUINTILIANWrite quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
More Quintilian Quotes
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Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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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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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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A liar ought to have a good memory.
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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person.
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Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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