Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
QUINTILIANThe mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
More Quintilian Quotes
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A liar must have a good memory.
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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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She abounds with lucious faults.
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There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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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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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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