A liar ought to have a good memory.
QUINTILIANThe perfection of art is to conceal art.
More Quintilian Quotes
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Lately we have had many losses.
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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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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
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A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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A liar should have a good memory.
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One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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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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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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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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She abounds with lucious faults.
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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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Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
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