Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
QUINTILIANWrite quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
More Quintilian Quotes
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Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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A liar ought to have a good memory.
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The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
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A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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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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Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
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Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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