The perfection of art is to conceal art.
QUINTILIANIt seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
More Quintilian Quotes
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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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A liar must have a good memory.
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Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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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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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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She abounds with lucious faults.
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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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