For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
QUINTILIANThough ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
More Quintilian Quotes
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Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.
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Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
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Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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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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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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A liar should have a good memory.
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Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
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Usage is the best language teacher.
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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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