Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
QUINTILIANOne should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person.
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Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Usage is the best language teacher.
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
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It is much easier to try one’s hand at many things than to concentrate one’s powers on one thing.
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If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
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Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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