Roman - Educator | 35 - 95
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
Quintilian
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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
RulesUselessWithoutNaturalGifts
Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
WorkTalentAgricultureStudentSoil
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
MindTeachEasierSetBefore
To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
ImaginationMindBoyWhomCritical
Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
AmbitionViceVirtuesThoughCause
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
HopeWinAdvantageCannotYield
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
NatureGreatNeverChangesHerself
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