It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
QUINTILIANConscience is a thousand witnesses.
More Quintilian Quotes
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The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
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Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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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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In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
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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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A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person.
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Lately we have had many losses.
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Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.
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For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.
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