Quintilian Quotes
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Laudem virtutis necessitati damus.
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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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Sit ergo nobis orator quem constituimus is qui a M. Catone finitur vir bonus dicendi peritus, verum, id quod et ille posuit prius et ipsa natura potius ac maius est, utique vir bonus.
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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Pectus est enim quod disertos facit, et vis mentis.
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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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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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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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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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Qui stultis videri eruditi volunt stulti eruditis videntur.
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Historia et scribitur ad narrandum non ad probandum.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Quamlibet multa egerimus, quodam tamen modo recentes sumus ad id quod incipimus. quis non obtundi potest, si per totum diem cuiuscunque artis unum magistrum ferat? mutatione recreabitur sicut in cibis, quorum diversitate reficitur stomachus et pluribus minore fastidio alitur.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.