Lately we have had many losses.
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More Quintilian Quotes
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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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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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Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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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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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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A liar must have a good memory.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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She abounds with lucious faults.
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Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
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For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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