Quintilian Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages von Quintilian:

To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.

That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.

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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.

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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

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A liar should have a good memory.

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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.

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

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

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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.

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The perfection of art is to conceal art.

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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.

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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.

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

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

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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.

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While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin, the opportunity is lost.

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It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.

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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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

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He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.

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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.

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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.

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

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Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.

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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.

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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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For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.

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