Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
QUINTILIANConscience is a thousand witnesses.
More Quintilian Quotes
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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Lately we have had many losses.
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As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Medicine for the dead is too late.
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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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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.
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