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"44 Quintilian Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 35 AD. Died: 100 AD | Educator |

While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin, the opportunity is lost.

Opportunity Shall Begin Mind
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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
Deep Form Minds Must
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A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.
Costs Expense Laugh Much
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He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.

Differs Does Evil He
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.

Perfection Prematurely Soon Which
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
Art Of Conceal Perfection
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It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.

Be A Man Fitting Good Good Memory
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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.

Certain Dreams Hopes Like
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.

Begin Deliberate Grows How
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Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
Change Dangerous Fortune Men
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Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.

Appetite Both Change Food
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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.

Difficulty Excuse Our Pretext
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It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.

Ever Genius Happens Maturity
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.

Broken Easily Evil Habits
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Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.

Alone Even However Labors
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God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.

All-Powerful Animals Architect Character
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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
Almost Almost Everything Everything Experience
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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.

Becoming Except Honorable Man
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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.

Easily Form Idea Misery
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
Beginning A End Everything
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A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.

Bought Costs Expense Laugh
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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.

Been Better Born Destruction
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Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.

Fear Fortune Future Present
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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.

Everything Examining Expected Find
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

Among Appear Foolish Fools
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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.

Ambition Itself Often Parent
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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.

Alone Desire Excite Forbidden
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A liar should have a good memory.
Good Good Memory Liar Memory
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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.

Gifts Natural Rules Technical
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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.

Agriculture Barren Consequently Derive
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It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.

Attempt Child First He
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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.

Alone Educated Fathers Highly
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For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.

Before Easier Mind Set
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To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.

Advance Boy Critical Develops
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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.

Boy Correcting Discourage Effort
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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.

Character Contemplation Matter Mind
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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.

Defeat Inevitable Wisest Yield
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Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.

Entirely Indeed Our Own
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Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.

Ambition Cause Itself Often
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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
Advantage Cannot Hope We Cannot
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Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.

Attempted Changes Effect Great
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It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing.

Concentrate Easier Hand Many
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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.

Almost Body Differs Gifts
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The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.

Admission Creates Excellent Fault
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Quintilian Quotes & Sayings