Roman - Educator | 35 - 95
A liar should have a good memory.
Quintilian
GoodLiarMemoryGood MemoryShould
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.
ManBetterBornNeighborDumbGifts
A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.
LaughToo MuchCostsMuchExpense
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
ReadingDeepMindsMustRatherThan
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
BeginningEndEverything
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
ArtPerfectionConceal
Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.
FearFuturePresentFortuneWorse
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
OpportunityEvilOnlyWhoHeHis
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
SatireOwnOurIndeedVerse
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
ExperienceMoreEverythingPrecept
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.
CharacterMindMatterVirtueVice
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
LateBeginToo LateDeliberateHow
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