Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
QUINTILIANStudy depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
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Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.
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Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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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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Medicine for the dead is too late.
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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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There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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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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Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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