Quintilian
Quotes by Quintilian
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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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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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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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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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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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A liar should have a good memory.
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We give to necessity the praise of virtue.
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Those who wish to seem learned to fools, seem fools to the learned.
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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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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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From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.
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