Quintilian Quotes
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
Quintilian
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I've always felt a bit hard done by in England – you know, I've won the Bisto three times in Ireland, but it has felt like nobody has even heard of me in my home country.
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Quickly you make rash decisions. You dismiss your last allies: hope and trust. There, you've defeated yourself. Fear, which is but an impression, has triumphed over you.
Yann Martel
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Falsehood and delusion are allowed in no case whatever: But, as in the exercise of all the virtues, there is an œconomy of truth. It is a sort of temperance, by which a man speaks truth with measure that he may speak it the longer.
Edmund Burke
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I don't believe in God, but I do believe in that chaotic reality, and also this: that none of us knows anything about anything. Period.
Emily Susan Rapp
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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
Quintilian