Usage is the best language teacher.
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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.
More Quintilian Quotes
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Usage is the best language teacher.
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Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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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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Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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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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Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
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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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Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.
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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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