Quintilian Quotes
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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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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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.
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Qui stultis videri eruditi volunt stulti eruditis videntur.
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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Historia et scribitur ad narrandum non ad probandum.
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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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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Pectus est enim quod disertos facit, et vis mentis.
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Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
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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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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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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 excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Mutos enim nasci et egere omni ratione satius fuisset quam providentiae munera in mutuam perniciem convertere.
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Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.
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Et hercule quantumlibet secreta studia contulerint, est tamen proprius quidam fori profectus, alia lux, alia veri discriminis facies, plusque, si separes, usus sine doctrina quam citra usum doctrina valeat.
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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Nihil enim rerum ipsa natura voluit magnum effici cito, praeposuitque pulcherrimo cuique operi difficultatem: quae nascendi quoque hanc fecerit legem, ut maiora animalia diutius visceribus parentis continerentur.