Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
QUINTILIANA man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling in not actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.
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There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
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Medicine for the dead is too late.
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A liar must have a good memory.
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A liar should have a good memory.
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The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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She abounds with lucious faults.
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A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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