Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
QuintilianQuintilian It is much easier to try one’s hand at many things than to concentrate one’s powers on one thing.
QuintilianQuintilian The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
QuintilianQuintilian Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
QuintilianQuintilian Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.
QuintilianQuintilian To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
QuintilianQuintilian Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
QuintilianQuintilian If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
QuintilianQuintilian One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
QuintilianQuintilian While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
QuintilianQuintilian From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.
QuintilianQuintilian Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
QuintilianQuintilian We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.
QuintilianQuintilian A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling in not actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.
QuintilianQuintilian The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
QuintilianQuintilian There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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