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• God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.

  Quintilian

  Powerful, Character, Animal

  "Institutes of Oratory (Volume II)". Book by Quintilian, 95 CE.

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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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• There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.

  Quintilian

  Pride, Taught, Knows

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

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  Obscurity, Proportion, Incapacity

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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.

  Quintilian

  Father, Pregnancy, Parent

  Quintilian (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Quintilian (Illustrated)”, p.18, Delphi Classics

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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.

  Quintilian

  Father, Men, Names

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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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• To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.

  Quintilian

  Boys, Giving, Imagination

  Quintilian (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Quintilian (Illustrated)”, p.77, Delphi Classics

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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.

  Quintilian

  Soul, Obscurity, Rust

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• Medicine for the dead is too late

  Quintilian

  Medicine, Too Late, Late

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• In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.

  Quintilian

  Journey, Ideas, Crowds

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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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• 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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• Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.

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  Song, Men, Rude

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 732-33, De Institutione Oratoria, I. 81, 1922.

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• Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.

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  Mother, Ambition, Vices

  Quintilian (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Quintilian (Illustrated)”, p.26, Delphi Classics

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• It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.

  Quintilian

  Maturity, Genius, Happens

  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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• Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
  [Lat., Continuis voluptatibus vicina satietas.]

  Quintilian

  Neighbor, Pleasure, Satiety

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• For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.

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  Mind, Easier, Teach

  Quintilian (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Quintilian (Illustrated)”, p.69, Delphi Classics

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• If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.

  Quintilian

  Work, Eye, Mind

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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.

  Quintilian

  Hands, Trying, Easier

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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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• The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.

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  Faults, Brilliant, Excellent

  Quintilian (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Quintilian (Illustrated)”, p.1829, Delphi Classics

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• Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.

  Quintilian

  Agriculture, Soil, Students

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

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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.

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  Education, Children, Stupid

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