Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
QUINTILIANVain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
More Quintilian Quotes
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Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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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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By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
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One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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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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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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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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It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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A liar should have a good memory.
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Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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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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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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We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.
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