(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
QUINTILIANFor 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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Medicine for the dead is too late.
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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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By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
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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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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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Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.
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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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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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The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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