Quintilian Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.”
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“Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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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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“While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. the opportunity is lost.”
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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.”
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“Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.”
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“A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.”
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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.”
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“We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.”
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“One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.”
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“Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.”
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“For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.”
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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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“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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“Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.”
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“It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.”
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“For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.”
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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.”
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“(Slaughter) means blood and iron. [Lat., Coedes videtur significare sanguinem et ferrum.]”
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“Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education. [Lat., Virtus, etiamsi quosdam impetus a natura sumit, tamen perficienda doctrina est.]”
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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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“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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“Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty. [Lat., Nimis in veritate, et similitudinis quam pulchritudinis amantior.]”
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“Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues. [Lat., Licet ipsa vitium sit ambitio, frequenter tamen causa virtutem est.]”
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