When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
QUINTILIANThe perfection of art is to conceal art.
More Quintilian Quotes
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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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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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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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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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Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.
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Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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For 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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The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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