Lately we have had many losses.
QUINTILIANEverything that has a beginning comes to an end.
More Quintilian Quotes
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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She abounds with lucious faults.
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A liar must have a good memory.
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It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.
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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.
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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.
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Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Usage is the best language teacher.
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Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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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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Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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