Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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More Quintilian Quotes
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Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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It is much easier to try one’s hand at many things than to concentrate one’s powers on one thing.
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Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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A liar should have a good memory.
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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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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person.
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
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Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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