Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
QUINTILIAN(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
More Quintilian Quotes
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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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The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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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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The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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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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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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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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Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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