Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
QUINTILIANIn a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
More Quintilian Quotes
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Lately we have had many losses.
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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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