Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
QUINTILIANWe should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.
More Quintilian Quotes
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Usage is the best language teacher.
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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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Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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She abounds with lucious faults.
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Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
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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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Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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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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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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A 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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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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