A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.
QUINTILIANVain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
More Quintilian Quotes
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A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
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Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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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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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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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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Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
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It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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