Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
QUINTILIANSatiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
More Quintilian Quotes
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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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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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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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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.
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