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Marcus Fabius Quintilian Quotes

«In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.»
«One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.»
«A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.»
«Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.»
«It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.»
«For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.»
«The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.»
«While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.»
«That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.»
«Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.»
Author: Marcus Fabius Quintilian | Keywords: satiety

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