For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
QUINTILIANWithout natural gifts technical rules are useless.
More Quintilian Quotes
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The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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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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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Medicine for the dead is too late.
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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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It is much easier to try one’s hand at many things than to concentrate one’s powers on one thing.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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