Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
QUINTILIANConscience is a thousand witnesses.
QUINTILIANWhilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
QUINTILIANIt is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
QUINTILIANWe must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
QUINTILIANA 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.
QUINTILIANThe perfection of art is to conceal art.
QUINTILIANStudy depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
QUINTILIANEverything that has a beginning comes to an end.
QUINTILIANThere is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
QUINTILIAN(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
QUINTILIANIt is much easier to try one’s hand at many things than to concentrate one’s powers on one thing.
QUINTILIANIt seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
QUINTILIANIt is the heart which inspires eloquence.
QUINTILIANIt is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
QUINTILIANThat which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
QUINTILIANIt is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy’s mind from effort.
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