Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
QUINTILIANBy writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
More Quintilian Quotes
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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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Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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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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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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Usage is the best language teacher.
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The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
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A liar ought to have a good memory.
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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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