While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
QUINTILIANSayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.
More Quintilian Quotes
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The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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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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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. The opportunity is lost.
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To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
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She abounds with lucious faults.
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There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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