To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
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.
More Quintilian Quotes
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A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Medicine for the dead is too late.
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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Lately we have had many losses.
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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
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Usage is the best language teacher.
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A liar should have a good memory.
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Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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