To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
QUINTILIANIf you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
More Quintilian Quotes
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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.
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Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
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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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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.
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Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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