A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
QUINTILIANA religion without mystics is a philosophy.
QUINTILIANConscience is a thousand witnesses.
QUINTILIANNothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
QUINTILIANThe perfection of art is to conceal art.
QUINTILIANOne thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
QUINTILIANIf you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
QUINTILIANAmbition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
QUINTILIANSatiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
QUINTILIANVain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
QUINTILIANThat which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
QUINTILIANA laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
QUINTILIANGive bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
QUINTILIANIt is the heart which inspires eloquence.
QUINTILIANUsage is the best language teacher.
QUINTILIANA man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling in not actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.
QUINTILIANWe must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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