Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
QUINTILIANMen, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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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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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Usage is the best language teacher.
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Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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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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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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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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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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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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