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.

Quote by Marcus Fabius Quintilian

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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.

While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.

Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.

Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.

Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.

Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.

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

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

That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.

That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.

For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.

For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.

Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.

Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.

God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with...

God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with...

The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.

The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.

Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.

Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.

A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.

A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.

He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks...

He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks...

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

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

A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.

A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.

It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.

It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.

Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.

Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.

The perfection of art is to conceal art.

The perfection of art is to conceal art.

Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are...

Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are...

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous...

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous...

The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds...

The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds...