The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
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More Quintilian Quotes
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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A liar must have a good memory.
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The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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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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That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
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Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
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(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Usage is the best language teacher.
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Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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She abounds with lucious faults.
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Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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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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Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
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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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