Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
QUINTILIANWhere evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
More Quintilian Quotes
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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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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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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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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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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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Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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She abounds with lucious faults.
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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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