That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
QUINTILIANSatiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
More Quintilian Quotes
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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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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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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One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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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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There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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A liar must have a good memory.
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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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