Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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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Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
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Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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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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Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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A liar ought to have a good memory.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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