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

Quote by Marcus Fabius Quintilian

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While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. the opportunity...

While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. the opportunity...

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

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...

We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.

We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.

In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.

Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.

For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void...

For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void...

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

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

Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.

Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.

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.

Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.

Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.

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

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

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

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

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.

That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.

That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.

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.

Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food,...

Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food,...

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.

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.

It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.

It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.