Quintilian Quotes About Virtue
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Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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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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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues. [Lat., Licet ipsa vitium sit ambitio, frequenter tamen causa virtutem est.]
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Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education. [Lat., Virtus, etiamsi quosdam impetus a natura sumit, tamen perficienda doctrina est.]
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Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
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