Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
QUINTILIANA religion without mystics is a philosophy.
More Quintilian Quotes
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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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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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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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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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It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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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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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
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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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Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Medicine for the dead is too late.
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