It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
QUINTILIANLately we have had many losses.
More Quintilian Quotes
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A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Usage is the best language teacher.
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There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
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The 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.
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Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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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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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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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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It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
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