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Marcus Fabius Quintilianus
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 A liar should have a good memory |  En lögnare måste ha ett bra minne. |
| Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue |
| An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity. |
| For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason. |
| 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. |
| God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech. |
| In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion |
| In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept. |
| It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory. |
| It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity. |
| One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy. |
| Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures. |
| That laughter costs too much, which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency |
| That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes. |
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Proverb (2101330 st) Search
Categories (3944 st) Search
Authors (201411 st) Search
Photos (4592 st)
Born (10498 st)
Died (3319 st)
Dates (9520 st)
Countries (27300 st)
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Toplists (6 st)
This website focuses on proverbs in the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian languages, and some parts including the links below have not been translated to English. They are mainly FAQs, various information and webpages for improving the collection.
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This website focuses on proverbs in the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian languages, and some parts including the links below have not been translated to English. They are mainly FAQs, various information and webpages for improving the collection.
Det är julafton om 145 dagar!
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