In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
QUINTILIANThose who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
More Quintilian Quotes
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An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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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 mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.
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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
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The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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