As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
QUINTILIANA religion without mystics is a philosophy.
More Quintilian Quotes
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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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The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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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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Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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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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For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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