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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 Quotes: It is worth while too
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
Quintilian Quotes: When defeat is inevitable, it
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 Quotes: Consequently the student who is
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
Quintilian Quotes: Where evil habits are once
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
Quintilian Quotes: The prosperous can not easily
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
Quintilian Quotes: A laugh costs too much
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
Quintilian Quotes: An evil-speaker differs from an
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
Quintilian Quotes: Nothing is more dangerous to
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
Quintilian Quotes: That which prematurely arrives at
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 Quotes: The mind is exercised by
Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
Quintilian Quotes: Virtue, though she gets her
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
Quintilian Quotes: For the mind is all
If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
Quintilian Quotes: If you direct your whole
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
Quintilian Quotes: Suffering itself does less afflict
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
Quintilian Quotes: The pretended admission of a
One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
Quintilian Quotes: One thing, however, I must
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 Quotes: A great part of art
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
Quintilian Quotes: Though ambition may be a
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
Quintilian Quotes: The obscurity of a writer
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
Quintilian Quotes: To swear, except when necessary,
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
Quintilian Quotes: A religion without mystics is
By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
Quintilian Quotes: By writing quickly we are
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
Quintilian Quotes: It is the heart which
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
Quintilian Quotes: Forbidden pleasures alone are loved
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
Quintilian Quotes: Whilst we deliberate how to
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
Quintilian Quotes: Ambition is a vice, but
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
Quintilian Quotes: For comic writers charge Socrates
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
Quintilian Quotes: He who speaks evil only
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
Quintilian Quotes: While we ponder when to
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
Quintilian Quotes: Men, even when alone, lighten
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
Quintilian Quotes: Verse satire indeed is entirely
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.
Quintilian Quotes: A man who tries to
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
Quintilian Quotes: Everything that has a beginning
It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
Quintilian Quotes: It is the nurse that
Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.
Quintilian Quotes: Sayings designed to raise a
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
Quintilian Quotes: It seldom happens that a
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 Quotes: Minds that are stupid and
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
Quintilian Quotes: It is easier to do
To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
Quintilian Quotes: To my mind the boy
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
Quintilian Quotes: We excuse our sloth under
While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin, the opportunity is lost.
Quintilian Quotes: While we are making up
Lately we have had many losses.
Quintilian Quotes: Lately we have had many
In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
Quintilian Quotes: In a crowd, on a
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
Quintilian Quotes: The learned understand the reason
A liar ought to have a good memory.
Quintilian Quotes: A liar ought to have
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 Quotes: As regards parents, I should
Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.
Quintilian Quotes: Fear of the future is
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
Quintilian Quotes: Nature herself has never attempted
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
[Lat., Continuis voluptatibus vicina satietas.]
Quintilian Quotes: Satiety is a neighbor to
Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
Quintilian Quotes: Though ambition itself be a
The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
Quintilian Quotes: The gifts of nature are
From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.
Quintilian Quotes: From writing rapidly it does
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