The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
QUINTILIANAmbition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
More Quintilian Quotes
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The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. The opportunity is lost.
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It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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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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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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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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It is much easier to try one’s hand at many things than to concentrate one’s powers on one thing.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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