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Brief author info: Quintilian (c. 35-c. 99) Full name, Marcus Fabius Quintilianus. Roman rhetorician.

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A liar should have a good memory.

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We give to necessity the praise of virtue.

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Those who wish to seem learned to fools, seem fools to the learned.

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In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.

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If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.

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From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.

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

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It is the heart which inspires eloquence.

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Peace Quote

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.

- Albert Einstein

Life Quote

Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last.

- Publilius Syrus

Life Quote

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

- Oscar Wilde

Love Quote

I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me.

- Anonymous

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You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.

- Marilyn Monroe

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