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.
QUINTILIANThe learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
More Quintilian Quotes
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There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. The opportunity is lost.
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Medicine for the dead is too late.
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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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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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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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Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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A liar ought to have a good memory.
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The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.
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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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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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