For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.
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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Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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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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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
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Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
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Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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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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Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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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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