A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person.
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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Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Usage is the best language teacher.
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For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.
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There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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