As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
QUINTILIANStudy depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
More Quintilian Quotes
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By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
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The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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She abounds with lucious faults.
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Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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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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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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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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