While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. The opportunity is lost.
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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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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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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For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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It is much easier to try one’s hand at many things than to concentrate one’s powers on one thing.
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Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
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