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.
QUINTILIANUsage is the best language teacher.
More Quintilian Quotes
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Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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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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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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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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Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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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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