Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.
QUINTILIANIt is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
More Quintilian Quotes
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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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It is much easier to try one’s hand at many things than to concentrate one’s powers on one thing.
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That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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