When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
QUINTILIANA laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
More Quintilian Quotes
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Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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Usage is the best language teacher.
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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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By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
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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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For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.
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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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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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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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She abounds with lucious faults.
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Medicine for the dead is too late.
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(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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