Our Friends Quintilian Quotes
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~ Quintilian Quote
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
~ Quintilian Quote
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
~ Quintilian Quote
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
~ Quintilian Quote
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
~ Quintilian Quote
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
~ Quintilian Quote
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
~ Quintilian Quote
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
~ Quintilian Quote
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue
~ Quintilian Quote
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
~ Quintilian Quote
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.
~ Quintilian Quote
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
~ Quintilian Quote
A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.
~ Quintilian Quote
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
~ Quintilian Quote
It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.
~ Quintilian Quote