In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
QUINTILIANWithout natural gifts technical rules are useless.
More Quintilian Quotes
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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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For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy’s mind from effort.
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Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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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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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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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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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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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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A liar must have a good memory.
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Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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