It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
QUINTILIANOne should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
More Quintilian Quotes
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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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Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
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Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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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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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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