Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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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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 great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.
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Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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A liar must have a good memory.
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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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The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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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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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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