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Quintilian - Institutio Oratoria

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It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.

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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.

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To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.

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As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.

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The all-important gift of an orator is to respond to change and variety in things.

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The Medea of Ovid seems to me to show how much that man could have excelled had he chosen to rein in his cleverness rather than indulge it.

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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.

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The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.

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Born: 35
Died: 96 (aged 61)
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