The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
QUINTILIANWrite quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
More Quintilian Quotes
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For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.
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That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
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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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While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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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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For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.
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For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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A liar must have a good memory.
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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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Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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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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An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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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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Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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