A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
QUINTILIANStudy depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
More Quintilian Quotes
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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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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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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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The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Lately we have had many losses.
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Usage is the best language teacher.
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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.
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An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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