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Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming (Quintilian Quotes)
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it (Quintilian Quotes)
Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture (Quintilian Quotes)
One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy (Quintilian Quotes)
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 (Quintilian Quotes)
For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience (Quintilian Quotes)
Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature (Quintilian Quotes)
We should not write so that it is possible for to understand us, but so that it is impossible for him to misunderstand us (Quintilian Quotes)
As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone (Quintilian Quotes)
In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion (Quintilian Quotes)
If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind (Quintilian Quotes)
The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body (Quintilian Quotes)
Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite (Quintilian Quotes)
From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly (Quintilian Quotes)
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity (Quintilian Quotes)
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 (Quintilian Quotes)
It is much easier to try one’s hand at many things than to concentrate one’s powers on one thing (Quintilian Quotes)
It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate (Quintilian Quotes)
While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. the opportunity is lost (Quintilian Quotes)
Prune what is turgid, elevate what is commonplace, arrange what is disorderly, introduce rhythm where the language is harsh, modify where it is too absolute (Quintilian Quotes)
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly (Quintilian Quotes)
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 (Quintilian Quotes)
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time (Quintilian Quotes)
Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision (Quintilian Quotes)
By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly (Quintilian Quotes)
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion (Quintilian Quotes)
We should not write so that it is possible for the reader to understand us, but so that it is impossible for him to misunderstand us (Quintilian Quotes)