Quintilian
Quotations
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“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
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“The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.” -Quintilian
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“Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.” -Quintilian
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“To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.” -Quintilian
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“Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.” -Quintilian
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“Our minds are like our stomaches they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.” -Quintilian
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“Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.” -Quintilian
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“In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.” -Quintilian
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“Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.” -Quintilian
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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
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