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.
QUINTILIANA liar ought to have a good memory.
More Quintilian Quotes
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Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Usage is the best language teacher.
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The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Lately we have had many losses.
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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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Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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She abounds with lucious faults.
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An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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