Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
QUINTILIANStudy depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
QUINTILIANIt 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.
QUINTILIANIt is the heart which inspires eloquence.
QUINTILIANConscience is a thousand witnesses.
QUINTILIANSayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.
QUINTILIANThe pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
QUINTILIANAmbition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
QUINTILIANNothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
QUINTILIANWe excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
QUINTILIANFrom writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.
QUINTILIANThat which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
QUINTILIANNothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
QUINTILIANLet us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
QUINTILIANThe perfection of art is to conceal art.
QUINTILIANWhen defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
QUINTILIANWhilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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