Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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More Quintilian Quotes
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A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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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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Medicine for the dead is too late.
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We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.
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Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. The opportunity is lost.
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The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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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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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.
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Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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