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• One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.

  Quintilian

  Natural, Capacity, Efficacy

  Quintilian (1805). “Quintilian's institutes of eloquence ...”, p.7

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• Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
  [Lat., Nimis in veritate, et similitudinis quam pulchritudinis amantior.]

  Quintilian

  Beauty, Studious

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

  Quintilian

  Dream, Hope, Vain

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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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• It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.

  Quintilian

  Children, Nurse, Firsts

  Quintilian (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Quintilian (Illustrated)”, p.17, 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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• For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.

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  Teacher, Learning, Pride

  Quintilian (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Quintilian (Illustrated)”, p.24, Delphi Classics

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• A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person

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  Persons, Ifs, Generous

  Quintilian (2001). “The Orator's Education: Books 3-5”

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• She abounds with lucious faults.

  Quintilian

  Dating, Faults

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• A liar must have a good memory. -Mendacem oportet esse memorem

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  Memories, Liars, Good Memories

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• (Slaughter) means blood and iron.
  [Lat., Coedes videtur significare sanguinem et ferrum.]

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  War, Mean, Blood

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• A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling inot actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.

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  Men, Trying, Followers

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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.

  Quintilian

  Writing, Doe, Results

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• For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.

  Quintilian

  Reason, Comic

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 658-59, De Institutione Oratoria, II. 17. 1, 1922.

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• Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.

  Quintilian

  Satire, Verses

  'Institutio Oratoria' bk. 10, ch. 1, sect. 93 (nostra meaning Roman as opposed to Greek)

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