Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
QUINTILIANStudy depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
More Quintilian Quotes
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A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person.
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Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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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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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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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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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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Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.
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Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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