Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
QUINTILIANA mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.
More Quintilian Quotes
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It is much easier to try one’s hand at many things than to concentrate one’s powers on one thing.
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Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Usage is the best language teacher.
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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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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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There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.
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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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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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One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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