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Quintilian

Quintilian

Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (c. 35 – c. 100) was a Roman rhetorician from Hispania, widely referred to in medieval schools of rhetoric and in Renaissance writing.

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The perfection of art is to conceal art.

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Quintilian

Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.

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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

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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.

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Quintilian

A liar should have a good memory.

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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.

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

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

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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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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.

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