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Quintilian Inspirational Quotes (54)

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Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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She abounds with lucious faults.
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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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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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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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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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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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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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The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Medicine for the dead is too late
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Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Write quickly and you will never write well write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures. [Lat., Continuis voluptatibus vicina satietas.]
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