Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
More Quotes from Quintilian:
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.Quintilian
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
Quintilian
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