The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
QUINTILIANIt is much easier to try one’s hand at many things than to concentrate one’s powers on one thing.
More Quintilian Quotes
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Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.
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Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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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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We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.
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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Usage is the best language teacher.
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Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
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She abounds with lucious faults.
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