"The gifts of nature are infinite in their……" — Quintilian

The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs… - Quintilian

"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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76 Quotes by Quintilian

Quintilian has 76 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…
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…
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…
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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More Body Quotes

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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure… — Aristotle
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the… — M H Abrams
Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail… — Johann Arndt
Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds… — Mary Astell
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa… — Chinua Achebe
Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do… — John James Audubon
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All… — Saint Augustine

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