A liar must have a good memory.
QUINTILIANForbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
More Quintilian Quotes
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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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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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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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A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Lately we have had many losses.
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For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.
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Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Usage is the best language teacher.
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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