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• Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
  [Lat., Virtus, etiamsi quosdam impetus a natura sumit, tamen perficienda doctrina est.]

  Quintilian

  Virtue, Impetus

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• The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.

  Quintilian

  Soul, Obscurity, Rust

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• By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.

  Quintilian

  Writing, Writing Well, Wells

  Quintilian (1856). “Quintilian's Institutes of Oratory, Or, Education of an Orator: In Twelve Books”, p.286

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• It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.

  Quintilian

  Maturity, Genius, Happens

  Quintilian (1805). “Quinctilian's Institutes of Eloquence: Or, The Art of Speaking in Public, in Every Character and Capacity”, p.26

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• One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.

  Quintilian

  Natural, Capacity, Efficacy

  Quintilian (1805). “Quintilian's institutes of eloquence ...”, p.7

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• For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.

  Quintilian

  Teacher, Learning, Pride

  Quintilian (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Quintilian (Illustrated)”, p.24, Delphi Classics

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• A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person

  Quintilian

  Persons, Ifs, Generous

  Quintilian (2001). “The Orator's Education: Books 3-5”

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• 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

  Agriculture, Soil, Students

  Quintilian (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Quintilian (Illustrated)”, p.17, Delphi Classics

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• She abounds with lucious faults.

  Quintilian

  Dating, Faults

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• (Slaughter) means blood and iron.
  [Lat., Coedes videtur significare sanguinem et ferrum.]

  Quintilian

  War, Mean, Blood

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• A liar must have a good memory. -Mendacem oportet esse memorem

  Quintilian

  Memories, Liars, Good Memories

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• Lately we have had many losses.

  Quintilian

  Loss

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• 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

  Men, Trying, Followers

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• From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.

  Quintilian

  Writing, Doe, Results

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• For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.

  Quintilian

  Reason, Comic

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 658-59, De Institutione Oratoria, II. 17. 1, 1922.

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• Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.

  Quintilian

  Satire, Verses

  'Institutio Oratoria' bk. 10, ch. 1, sect. 93 (nostra meaning Roman as opposed to Greek)

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