Usage is the best language teacher.
QUINTILIANGod, 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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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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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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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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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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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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Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
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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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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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