Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.
QUINTILIANThere is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
More Quintilian Quotes
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It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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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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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.
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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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