Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
QUINTILIANA laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
More Quintilian Quotes
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The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Lately we have had many losses.
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Medicine for the dead is too late.
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From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.
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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Usage is the best language teacher.
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There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.
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