Quintilian Quotes
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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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Pectus est enim quod disertos facit, et vis mentis.
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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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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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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Laudem virtutis necessitati damus.
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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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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Adeo facilius est multa facere quam diu.
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A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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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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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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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Mutos enim nasci et egere omni ratione satius fuisset quam providentiae munera in mutuam perniciem convertere.
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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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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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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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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
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A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.