The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
QUINTILIANThe learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
More Quintilian Quotes
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Lately we have had many losses.
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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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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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A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person.
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