The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
QUINTILIANEverything that has a beginning comes to an end.
More Quintilian Quotes
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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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The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
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She abounds with lucious faults.
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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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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.
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Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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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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It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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