It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
QUINTILIANSuffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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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The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Medicine for the dead is too late.
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For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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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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Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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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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One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
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Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.
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In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
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