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• Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.

  Quintilian

  Suffering, Doe, Anticipation

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• A liar ought to have a good memory.

  Quintilian

  Memories, Liars, Army

  Quintilian (1873). “Quintilian's Institutes of Oratory: Or, Education of an Orator”, p.292

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• While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.

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  Too Late, Pondering, Late

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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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  Hands, Trying, Easier

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• Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.

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  Great Change, Effects

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• He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.

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  Opportunity, Evil, Doe

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• Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.

  Quintilian

  Useless, Natural Gifts, Natural

  Quintilian (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Quintilian (Illustrated)”, p.17, Delphi Classics

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• Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.

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  Father, Ambition, Vices

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• Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.

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  Hypocrisy, Wish, Fool

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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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  Men, Honorable Man, Becoming

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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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  Long, Easier, Variety

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• Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.

  Quintilian

  Writing, Men, Hands

  Quintilian (1805). “Quintilian's institutes of eloquence ...”, p.15

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• Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.

  Quintilian

  Becoming

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• Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.

  Quintilian

  Dream, Hope, Vain

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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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  Men, Should Have, Dumb

  "De Institutione Oratoria". Book by Quintilian,

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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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  Beauty, Studious

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• The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.

  Quintilian

  Obscurity, Proportion, Incapacity

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• It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.

  Quintilian

  Memories, Liars, Lying

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 485-87, IV. 2. 91, 1922.

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• Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.

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  Friendship, Jest, Maxims

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• Minds that are stupid and incapable of science are in the order of nature to be regarded as monsters and other extraordinary phenomena; minds of this sort are rare. Hence I conclude that there are great resources to be found in children, which are suffered to vanish with their years. It is evident, therefore, that it is not of nature, but of our own negligence, we ought to complain.

  Quintilian

  Education, Children, Stupid

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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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  Children, Nurse, Firsts

  Quintilian (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Quintilian (Illustrated)”, p.17, Delphi Classics

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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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  Mind, Body, Infinite

  Quintilian (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Quintilian (Illustrated)”, p.88, Delphi Classics

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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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  Ambition, Parent, Vices

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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.]

  Quintilian

  Virtue, Impetus

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• By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.

  Quintilian

  Writing, Writing Well, Wells

  Quintilian (1856). “Quintilian's Institutes of Oratory, Or, Education of an Orator: In Twelve Books”, p.286

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