Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
QUINTILIANThat which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
More Quintilian Quotes
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A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person.
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She abounds with lucious faults.
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While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Usage is the best language teacher.
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For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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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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Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. The opportunity is lost.
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A liar must have a good memory.
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