Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
QUINTILIANMedicine for the dead is too late.
More Quintilian Quotes
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An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. The opportunity is lost.
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Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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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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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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