Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
QUINTILIANIn almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
More Quintilian Quotes
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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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Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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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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While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. The opportunity is lost.
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Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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