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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
- Quintilian
#Gifts
#Natural
#Rules
#Useless
#Without
The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
- Quintilian
#Character
#Contemplation
#Matter
#Mind
It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
- Quintilian
#First
#He
#Her
#Will
#Words
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
#Boy
#Effort
#Mind
#Teacher
#Worth
To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
- Quintilian
#Boy
#Critical
#Imagination
#Mind
#Who
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
- Quintilian
#Effect
#Great
#Herself
#Nature
#Never
Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.
- Quintilian
#Fear
#Fortune
#Future
#Present
#Worse
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
- Quintilian
#Costs
#Laugh
#Much
#Too Much
#Virtue
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
#Better
#Born
#Dumb
#Man
#Neighbor
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
- Quintilian
#Dreams
#Hopes
#Like
#Vain
#Who
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
- Quintilian
#Alone
#Desire
#Excite
#Lawful
#Loved
#Pleasures
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
- Quintilian
#Broken
#Evil
#More
#Once
#Where
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
- Quintilian
#Beginning
#End
#Everything
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
#Character
#God
#Man
#Nature
#World
A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.
- Quintilian
#Costs
#Laugh
#Much
#Too Much
#Too
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
- Quintilian
#Defeat
#Inevitable
#Wisdom
#Wisest
#Yield
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
- Quintilian
#Deep
#Form
#Must
#Rather
#Reading
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
- Quintilian
#Difficulty
#Excuse
#Our
#Pretext
#Sloth
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
- Quintilian
#Foolish
#Fools
#Who
#Wise
#Wish
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
- Quintilian
#Begin
#Deliberate
#How
#Late
#Too Late
Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
- Quintilian
#Change
#Food
#Fresh
#Like
#Variety
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
- Quintilian
#Everything
#Experience
#More
#Valuable
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
- Quintilian
#Art
#Conceal
#Perfection
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
- Quintilian
#Alone
#Lighten
#Men
#Rude
#Song
A liar should have a good memory.
- Quintilian
#Good Memory
#Good
#Liar
#Memory
#Should
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
- Quintilian
#Change
#Fortune
#Men
#Money
#Nothing
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