Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
QUINTILIANWe must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
More Quintilian Quotes
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A liar must have a good memory.
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Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.
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Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Usage is the best language teacher.
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Lately we have had many losses.
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The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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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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(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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