He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
QUINTILIANA liar must have a good memory.
More Quintilian Quotes
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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 learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
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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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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 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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The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
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Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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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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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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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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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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