It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy’s mind from effort.
QUINTILIANWe must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
More Quintilian Quotes
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A liar ought to have a good memory.
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It is much easier to try one’s hand at many things than to concentrate one’s powers on one thing.
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A liar should have a good memory.
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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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A liar must have a good memory.
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For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
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A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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Fear of the future is worse than one’s present 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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