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    Quintilian Quotes

    Quotes by Quintilian

    • It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing.
    • Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
    • Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
    • That laughter costs too much which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency.
    • The perfection of art is to conceal art.
    • Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
    • When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
    • When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
    • A liar should have a good memory.
      De Institutione Oratoria
    • Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
      De Institutione Oratoria
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