From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.
QUINTILIANAmbition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
More Quintilian Quotes
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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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It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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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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Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person.
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Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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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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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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Lately we have had many losses.
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For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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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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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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A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
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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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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Usage is the best language teacher.
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Medicine for the dead is too late.
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A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.
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The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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