Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
QUINTILIAN(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
More Quintilian Quotes
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Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
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The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Lately we have had many losses.
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Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
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In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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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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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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Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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A liar ought to have a good memory.
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A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Usage is the best language teacher.
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Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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A liar should have a good memory.
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Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
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Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.
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While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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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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