That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
QUINTILIANIt is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
More Quintilian Quotes
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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Usage is the best language teacher.
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It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
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Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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