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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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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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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Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.
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Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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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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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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