The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
QUINTILIANFrom writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.
More Quintilian Quotes
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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A liar should have a good memory.
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Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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