Medicine for the dead is too late.
QUINTILIAN
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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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QuintilianQuintilian Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
QuintilianQuintilian Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
QuintilianQuintilian Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
QuintilianQuintilian Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
QuintilianQuintilian Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
QuintilianQuintilian We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
QuintilianQuintilian While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
QuintilianQuintilian It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
QuintilianQuintilian Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
QuintilianQuintilian Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
QuintilianQuintilian Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
QuintilianQuintilian He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
QuintilianQuintilian Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
QuintilianQuintilian The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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