Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
QUINTILIANA laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
More Quintilian Quotes
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A liar must have a good memory.
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Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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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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Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.
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We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.
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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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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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Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling in not actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.
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As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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Usage is the best language teacher.
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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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