Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
QUINTILIANWithout natural gifts technical rules are useless.
More Quintilian Quotes
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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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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
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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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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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By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
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Medicine for the dead is too late.
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A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.
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Lately we have had many losses.
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It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
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