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• While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.

  Quintilian

  Sometimes, Expected, Examining

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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.]

  Quintilian

  Men, Honorable Man, Becoming

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• Give me the boy who rouses when he is praised, who profits when he is encouraged and who cries when he is defeated. Such a boy will be fired by ambition; he will be stung by reproach, and animated by preference; never shall I apprehend any bad consequences from idleness in such a boy.

  Quintilian

  Ambition, Boys, Giving

  Quintilian (1805). “Quinctilian's Institutes of Eloquence: Or, The Art of Speaking in Public, in Every Character and Capacity”, p.26

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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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• Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.

  Quintilian

  Broken Heart, Evil, Broken Promises

  "Institutio Oratoria". Textbook by Marcus Fabius Quintilianus, I, 3, 3,

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

  Quintilian

  Great Change, Effects

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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.

  Quintilian

  Writing, Language, Introducing

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• A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.

  Quintilian

  Art, Want, Life Is

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• The perfection of art is to conceal art.

  Quintilian

  Art, Perfection, Design

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• That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.

  Quintilian

  Perfection

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• 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

  Teacher, Boys, Effort

  Quintilian (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Quintilian (Illustrated)”, p.78, Delphi Classics

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• A religion without mystics is a philosophy.

  Quintilian

  Philosophy

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• When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.

  Quintilian

  Hard Work, Yield, Defeat

  Quintilian (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Quintilian (Illustrated)”, p.319, Delphi Classics

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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.

  Quintilian

  Life, Food, Mind

  Quintilian (1805). “Quinctilian's Institutes of Eloquence: Or, The Art of Speaking in Public, in Every Character and Capacity”, p.59

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• Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.

  Quintilian

  Laughter, Laughing, Raises

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• Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.

  Quintilian

  Desire, Pleasure, Forbidden Fruit

  "Declamationes". Book by Quintilian,

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

  Quintilian

  Suffering, Doe, Anticipation

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• When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.

  Quintilian

  Winning, Yield, Advantage

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• Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.

  Quintilian

  Becoming

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

  Quintilian

  Too Late, Pondering, Late

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• The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.

  Quintilian

  Ideas, Misery, Form

  "De Institutione Oratoria", IX, 6, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 637-38, 1922.

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• While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. the opportunity is lost.

  Quintilian

  Opportunity, Mind, Lost

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• Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.

  Quintilian

  Change, Money, Men

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 289-93, De Institutione Oratoria, CCLX, 1922.

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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.

  Quintilian

  Men, Should Have, Dumb

  "De Institutione Oratoria". Book by Quintilian,

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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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