Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
QUINTILIANThe obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
More Quintilian Quotes
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
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Usage is the best language teacher.
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Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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It is much easier to try one’s hand at many things than to concentrate one’s powers on one thing.
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(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. The opportunity is lost.
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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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A liar should have a good memory.
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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