Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
QUINTILIANAs regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
More Quintilian Quotes
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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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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The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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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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If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
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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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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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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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A liar must have a good memory.
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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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Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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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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(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.
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She abounds with lucious faults.
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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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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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While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Usage is the best language teacher.
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Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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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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