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.
QUINTILIANWithout natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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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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Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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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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A liar must have a good memory.
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Lately we have had many losses.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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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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That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.
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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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