For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
QUINTILIANA liar must have a good memory.
More Quintilian Quotes
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It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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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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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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