To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
QUINTILIANTo my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
QUINTILIANFor comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
QUINTILIANFor all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.
QUINTILIANThat which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
QUINTILIANIt is much easier to try one’s hand at many things than to concentrate one’s powers on one thing.
QUINTILIANThough ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
QUINTILIANBy writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
QUINTILIANThe prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
QUINTILIANA laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
QUINTILIANVerse satire indeed is entirely our own.
QUINTILIANUsage is the best language teacher.
QUINTILIANThough ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
QUINTILIANGive bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
QUINTILIANIt is the heart which inspires eloquence.
QUINTILIANA mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.
QUINTILIANAmbition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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