In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
QUINTILIANThough ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
More Quintilian Quotes
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Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling in not actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.
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In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
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Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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A liar should have a good memory.
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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
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