Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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 pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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A liar must have a good memory.
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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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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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Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
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Usage is the best language teacher.
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