In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
QUINTILIANThough ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
More Quintilian Quotes
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It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Medicine for the dead is too late.
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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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She abounds with lucious faults.
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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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(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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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 examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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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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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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