Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
QUINTILIANAs regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
More Quintilian Quotes
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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A liar should have a good memory.
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The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.
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The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
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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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God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
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Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person.
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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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