By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
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.
More Quintilian Quotes
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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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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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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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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Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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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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As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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