Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
QUINTILIANThe learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
More Quintilian Quotes
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Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
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A liar must have a good memory.
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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It is much easier to try one’s hand at many things than to concentrate one’s powers on one thing.
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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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Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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She abounds with lucious faults.
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For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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