Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.
QUINTILIANMedicine for the dead is too late.
More Quintilian Quotes
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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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A liar must have a good memory.
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A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling in not actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.
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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Usage is the best language teacher.
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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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