Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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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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Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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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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A liar should have a good memory.
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While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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A liar must have a good memory.
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The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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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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It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Medicine for the dead is too late.
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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