When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
- Quintilian
Cannot, We Cannot, Advantage, Yield
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
- Quintilian
Alone, Pleasures, Lawful, Excite
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.
- Quintilian
Mind, Vice, Multiplicity, Contemplation
A liar should have a good memory.
- Quintilian
Memory, Good Memory, Should, Liar
It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.
- Quintilian
Memory, Should, Be A Man, Good Memory
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
- Quintilian
Too Late, How, Grows, Whilst
A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.
- Quintilian
Costs, Purchased, Too, Propriety
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
Student, Will, More, Profit
It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
- Quintilian
Words, Her, Will, Nurse
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
- Quintilian
Genius, Maturity, Ever, Premature
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
- Quintilian
Necessary, Becoming, Except, Honorable
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
- Quintilian
Art, Conceal, Perfection
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
- Quintilian
Soon, Which, Prematurely, Perfection
While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin, the opportunity is lost.
- Quintilian
Lost, Minds, Making, Making Up
It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.
- Quintilian
Mind, Discourage, Severity, Liable
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
- Quintilian
Own, Satire, Indeed, Verse
As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
- Quintilian
Like, Them, Fathers, Highly
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
- Quintilian
Wise, Wish, Appear, Fools
Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
- Quintilian
Change, Food, Like, Fresh
It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing.
- Quintilian
Than, Things, One Thing, Powers
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
- Quintilian
Men, Song, However, Labors
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
- Quintilian
Nature, Never, Effect, Attempted
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
- Quintilian
Difficulty, Excuse, Pretext, Sloth
For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
- Quintilian
Reason, Been, Employ, Providence
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
- Quintilian
His, Does, Speaks, Differs
The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
- Quintilian
Nature, Mind, Variety, Differs
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
- Quintilian
Rules, Natural, Technical, Useless
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
- Quintilian
Idea, Misery, Form, Prosperous
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
- Quintilian
Mind, Before, Set, Easier
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.
- Quintilian
Other, Creator, Distinguish, Faculty
To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
- Quintilian
Mind, Critical, Least, Faculty
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
- Quintilian
Vain, Like, Wake, Hopes
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
- Quintilian
Broken, Habits, Once, Evil
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
- Quintilian
Excellent, Part, Pretended, Admission
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
- Quintilian
Almost Everything, Almost, Valuable
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
- Quintilian
Money, Fortune, More, Sudden
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
- Quintilian
Costs, Too, Bought, Expense
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
- Quintilian
Parent, Vice, Itself, Ambition
Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
- Quintilian
Vice, Itself, Times, Ambition
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
- Quintilian
Deep, Minds, Form, Wide
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
- Quintilian
Truth, Sometimes, Find, Expected
Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.
- Quintilian
Future, Present, Than, Fortune
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