A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
QUINTILIANThe soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.
More Quintilian Quotes
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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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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.
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Lately we have had many losses.
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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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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From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.
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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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Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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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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Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
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Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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