One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
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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A liar ought to have a good memory.
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A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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A liar should have a good memory.
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Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
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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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One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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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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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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