One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
QUINTILIANTo my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
More Quintilian Quotes
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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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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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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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He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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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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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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Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Usage is the best language teacher.
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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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