Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
QUINTILIANThat which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
More Quintilian Quotes
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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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A liar should have a good memory.
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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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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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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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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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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
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One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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She abounds with lucious faults.
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It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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