To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
QUINTILIANThe learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
More Quintilian Quotes
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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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It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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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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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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