Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
QUINTILIANFor all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.
More Quintilian Quotes
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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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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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The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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A liar must have a good memory.
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She abounds with lucious faults.
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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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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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