One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
QUINTILIANVerse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Usage is the best language teacher.
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A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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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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For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Medicine for the dead is too late.
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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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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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Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
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Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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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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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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