Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
QUINTILIANWithout natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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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 are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
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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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A liar must have a good memory.
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One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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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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Medicine for the dead is too late.
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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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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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The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.
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