While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
QUINTILIANThose who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
More Quintilian Quotes
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The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
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Medicine for the dead is too late.
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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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One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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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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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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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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A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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