The perfection of art is to conceal art.
QUINTILIANIt is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
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The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
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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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A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.
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He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
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The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling in not actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.
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