Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
QUINTILIANFor 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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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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Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
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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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There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Usage is the best language teacher.
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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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