Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
QUINTILIANShe abounds with lucious faults.
More Quintilian Quotes
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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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Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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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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A liar must have a good memory.
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(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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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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From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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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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It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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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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Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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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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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
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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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A liar should have a good memory.
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