Famous Quintilian Quotes
While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin, the opportunity is lost.
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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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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 costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
Quintilian
It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.
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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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