Quintilian Quotes
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(Slaughter) means blood and iron. [Lat., Coedes videtur significare sanguinem et ferrum.]
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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
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If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
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A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person
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A liar should have a good memory.
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Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.
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One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
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A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.
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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man. [Lat., In totum jurare, nisi ubi necesse est, gravi viro parum convenit.]
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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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It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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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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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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A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling inot actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.
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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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That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
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Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.
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