To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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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The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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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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Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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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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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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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
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Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
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Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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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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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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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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For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
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The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
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A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.
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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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