One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
QUINTILIANWhile we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
More Quintilian Quotes
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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 gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
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It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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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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Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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