The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
QUINTILIANNothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
More Quintilian Quotes
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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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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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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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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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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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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 pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
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While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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She abounds with lucious faults.
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Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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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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It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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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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To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
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One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
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From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.
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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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