A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.
QUINTILIANWhile we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
More Quintilian Quotes
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A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. The opportunity is lost.
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Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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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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A liar must have a good memory.
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(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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She abounds with lucious faults.
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It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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