For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
QUINTILIANEverything that has a beginning comes to an end.
More Quintilian Quotes
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Medicine for the dead is too late.
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A liar should have a good memory.
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Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
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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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Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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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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That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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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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Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
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(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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