We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
QUINTILIANConscience is a thousand witnesses.
More Quintilian Quotes
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Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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A liar must have a good memory.
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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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Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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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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To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
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Medicine for the dead is too late.
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One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
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By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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