Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
QUINTILIANConsequently 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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In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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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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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy’s mind from effort.
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It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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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 man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling in not actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.
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