Quintilian Quotes
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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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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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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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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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For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.
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A liar should have a good memory.
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Quare non ut intellegere possit sed ne omnino possit non intellegere curandum.
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.
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Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
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Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Vtrubique autem orator meminisse debebit actione tota quid finxerit, quoniam solent excidere quae falsa sunt: verumque est illud quod vulgo dicitur, mendacem memorem esse oportere.
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While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin, the opportunity is lost.
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Modesto tamen et circumspecto iudicio de tantis viris pronuntiandum est, ne, quod plerisque accidit, damnent quae non intellegunt.