Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
QUINTILIANFor the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
More Quintilian Quotes
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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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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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While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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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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Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
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The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.
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