We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
QUINTILIAN(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
More Quintilian Quotes
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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy’s mind from effort.
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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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A liar must have a good memory.
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Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.
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The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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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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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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That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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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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