When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.
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Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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She abounds with lucious faults.
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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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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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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy’s mind from effort.
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The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.
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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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The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.
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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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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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By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
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