A liar ought to have a good memory.
QUINTILIANWhilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
More Quintilian Quotes
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We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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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 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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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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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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Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
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An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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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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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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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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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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It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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She abounds with lucious faults.
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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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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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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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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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Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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