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