Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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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She abounds with lucious faults.
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Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
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A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
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Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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