Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
QUINTILIANA liar should have a good memory.
More Quintilian Quotes
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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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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
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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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(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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A liar must have a good memory.
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Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy’s mind from effort.
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While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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