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Quintilian has 78 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
• A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling inot actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can…
• A liar ought to have a good memory.
• Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
• In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
• A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire…
• Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
• Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
• There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
• Prune what is turgid, elevate what is commonplace, arrange what is disorderly, introduce rhythm where the language is harsh, modify where it…
• Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
• One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.

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