While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. The opportunity is lost.
QUINTILIANSatiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
More Quintilian Quotes
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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It is much easier to try one’s hand at many things than to concentrate one’s powers on one thing.
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(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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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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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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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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