39 ordspråk av Marcus Fabius Quintilianus
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.
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A liar should have a good memory
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Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue
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An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.
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For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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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.
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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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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.
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He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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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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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.
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