If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
QUINTILIANHe who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
More Quintilian Quotes
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Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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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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She abounds with lucious faults.
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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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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The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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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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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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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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