Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
QUINTILIANSatiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
More Quintilian Quotes
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Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.
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For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Usage is the best language teacher.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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