When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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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Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Usage is the best language teacher.
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Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.
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One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.
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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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