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.
QUINTILIANNothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
More Quintilian Quotes
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To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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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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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling in not actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.
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If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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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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