It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy’s mind from effort.
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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That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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A liar ought to have a good memory.
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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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Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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