Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
QUINTILIANFor the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
More Quintilian Quotes
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Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.
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Medicine for the dead is too late.
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The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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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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One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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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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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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