Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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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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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Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
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It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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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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An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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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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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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