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Quintilian: 'A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.'

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Quintilian: 'It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.'

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Quintilian: 'Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.'

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Quintilian: 'Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.'

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Quintilian: '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.'

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Quintilian: 'A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.'

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Quintilian: 'In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.'

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Quintilian: 'Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.'

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Quintilian: 'Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.'

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Quintilian: '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: 'Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.'

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

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Quintilian: 'Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.'

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Quintilian: 'Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.'

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Quintilian: 'Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.'

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Quintilian: 'We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.'

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Quintilian: 'We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.'

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Quintilian: 'Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.'

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Quintilian: 'The perfection of art is to conceal art.'

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Quintilian: 'A liar should have a good memory.'

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