For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
QUINTILIAN(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
More Quintilian Quotes
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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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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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A liar should have a good memory.
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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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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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One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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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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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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It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Lately we have had many losses.
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