Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
QUINTILIANConscience is a thousand witnesses.
More Quintilian Quotes
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Usage is the best language teacher.
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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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Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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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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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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An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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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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A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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A liar should have a good memory.
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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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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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