The perfection of art is to conceal art.
QUINTILIANLately we have had many losses.
More Quintilian Quotes
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She abounds with lucious faults.
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A liar should have a good memory.
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. The opportunity is lost.
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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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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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The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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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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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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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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Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
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A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.
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