Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
QUINTILIANA Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person.
More Quintilian Quotes
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He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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A 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.
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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