Usage is the best language teacher.
QUINTILIANA liar should have a good memory.
More Quintilian Quotes
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A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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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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Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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She abounds with lucious faults.
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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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Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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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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It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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