"He who speaks evil only differs from his……" — Quintilian
"He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity."
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76 Quotes by Quintilian
Quintilian has 76 quotes on this site.
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Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling inot actually surpassing him, but one who merely…
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A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
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A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what…
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Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Prune what is turgid, elevate what is commonplace, arrange what is disorderly, introduce rhythm where the language is harsh, modify…
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Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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More Differs Quotes
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The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
— Ansel Adams
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As the heat of the coal differs from the coal itself, so do memory, perception, judgment, emotion, and will, differ…
— Annie Besant
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Speaking for myself, art differs from writing in that I never know what I'm going to paint until I paint…
— William S. Burroughs
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Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Why does man regret, even though he may endeavour to banish any such regret, that he has followed the one…
— Charles Darwin
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The world today speaks a great deal about love, and it is sought by many. But the pure love of…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Forging differs from hoaxing, inasmuch as in the later the deceit is intended to last for a time, and then…
— Charles Babbage
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The significance of a fact is relative to [the general body of scientific] knowledge. To say that a fact is…
— Bertrand Russell
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Geology differs as widely from cosmogony, as speculations concerning the creation of man differ from history.
— Charles Lyell
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Remember that accumulated knowledge, like accumulated capital, increases at compound interest: but it differs from the accumulation of capital in…
— Charles Babbage
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There is something irreversible about acquiring knowledge; and the simulation of the search for it differs in a most profound…
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
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Nature does nothing without a purpose. In children may be observed the traces and seeds of what will one day…
— Aristotle
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