Quintilian (Marcus Fabius Quintilian) quote: "Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended. [Lat., Frangas enim, citius quam corrigas quae in pravum induerunt.]"

We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty. [Lat., Difficultas patrocinia praeteximus seg...
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN)

For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason. [Lat., Nam et S...
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN)

Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you re...
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN)

In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept. [Lat., Nam in omnibus fere minus v...
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN)

Everything that has a beginning comes to an end. [Lat., Deficit omne quod nascitur.]
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN)

The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery. [Lat., Est felicibus difficilis miserar...
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN)

Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick h...
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN)

If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in th...
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN)

To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man. [Lat., In totum jurare, nisi ubi...
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN)

One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and prec...
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN)

Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be. [Lat., Etiam singulor...
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN)

For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather ...
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN)

It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN

A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.
MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN

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

Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN

Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN

The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body...
MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN

We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN

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

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

For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather t...
QUINTILIAN

For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
QUINTILIAN

That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
QUINTILIAN

Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
QUINTILIAN

It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.
QUINTILIAN

A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.
QUINTILIAN

The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body...
QUINTILIAN

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

Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
QUINTILIAN

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

It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at time...
QUINTILIAN

The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is ...
QUINTILIAN

It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
QUINTILIAN

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

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

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

Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
QUINTILIAN

While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin, the opportunity is lost.
QUINTILIAN

In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
QUINTILIAN

We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
QUINTILIAN

That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
QUINTILIAN

A liar should have a good memory.
QUINTILIAN

That laughter costs too much which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency.
QUINTILIAN

Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
QUINTILIAN

When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
QUINTILIAN

God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no chara...
QUINTILIAN

Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barr...
QUINTILIAN

Our minds are like our stomachs; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies ...
QUINTILIAN

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

When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
QUINTILIAN

The perfection of art is to conceal art.
QUINTILIAN

That laughter costs too much which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency.
QUINTILIAN

Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
QUINTILIAN

Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
QUINTILIAN

It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing.
QUINTILIAN

Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue
QUINTILIAN

A liar should have a good memory
QUINTILIAN

That laughter costs too much, which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency
QUINTILIAN

While we deliberate about beginning it is all ready too late to begin
QUINTILIAN

Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
QUINTILIAN

Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
QUINTILIAN

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

As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict ...
QUINTILIAN

The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
QUINTILIAN

I am a partisan and artisan of Europe. But I draw the lessons of my experience in government.
LAURENT FABIUS

The demographic weight of countries such as China and India exercise a massive pressure on our wages...
LAURENT FABIUS

There are 20 million unemployed and what does the Constitution offer us in the Europe of 25, 27 and ...
LAURENT FABIUS

This revision of the Constitution will not be perfect. But at least the Constitution will not be inf...
LAURENT FABIUS

We on the left who are pro-European and Internationalist wish to unite the peoples under a social mo...
LAURENT FABIUS

derail economic expectations of economic agents, and put public budgets in danger of new imbalances.
LAURENT FABIUS

We have strayed from a rational (oil) market equilibrium and it is our duty to reset this market's r...
LAURENT FABIUS

The U.S. withdrawal from the Kyoto protocol endangers the entire process,
LAURENT FABIUS

The Commission's proposal was adopted by all countries except Ireland, ... It is true it is the firs...
LAURENT FABIUS

with confidence, but not complacency.
LAURENT FABIUS

if the US economic landing is soft there will be no consequences (for Europe).
LAURENT FABIUS

When he announces that he's going to visit such and such a commune or suburb every week, that's not ...
LAURENT FABIUS

I do think there is a need for coordination of economic policy, but this doesn't mean that everybody...
LAURENT FABIUS

controlled very, very closely.
LAURENT FABIUS

We need to act at the same time on prevention, repression, education, housing, jobs ... and not play...
LAURENT FABIUS

To be turned from one's course by men's opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unf...
QUINTUS FABIUS MAXIMUS

Being an Ethiopian-born, Swedish-raised chef, there's nothing traditional about my Thanksgiving ...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON

Thanksgiving is one of my favorite American traditions. I quickly picked it up when I moved to the U...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON

Thanksgiving is probably my favorite holiday - it's a day that's American to the core and it...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON

Cooking is in an honest profession where you cannot hide and let others do the work for you. You hav...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON

For me, brunch is such a versatile meal since you can play on both the sweet and savory in your dish...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON

Childhood nutrition and healthy eating is a cause that is extremely close to my heart.
MARCUS SAMUELSSON

Spices, of course, are essential.
MARCUS SAMUELSSON

Like all food, whether you're talking about Persian food, or Chinese food, or Swedish food, it&#...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON

Every time you use the word 'healthy,' you lose. The key is to make yummy, delicious food th...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON

If you get hungry mid-day, a banana is the best snack at your desk, after a workout, or in between c...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON

Even just a few spices or ethnic condiments that you can keep in your pantry can turn your mundane d...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the futur...
MARCUS AURELIUS

The darker the chocolate is, the more antioxidants it contains. So when eaten in moderation - just a...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON

What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.
MARCUS AURELIUS

Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise ...
MARCUS AURELIUS

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.
MARCUS AURELIUS

Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.
MARCUS AURELIUS

Weekends are sacred for me. They're the perfect time to relax and spend time with family and fri...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON

The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations ...
MARCUS AURELIUS

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.
MARCUS AURELIUS

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is...
MARCUS AURELIUS

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.
MARCUS AURELIUS

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.
MARCUS AURELIUS

Be content to seem what you really are.
MARCUS AURELIUS

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.
MARCUS AURELIUS

Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be...
MARCUS AURELIUS

The act of dying is one of the acts of life.
MARCUS AURELIUS

Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle.
MARCUS AURELIUS

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
MARCUS AURELIUS

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
MARCUS AURELIUS

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education wit...
MARCUS AURELIUS

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be satisfied with ...
MARCUS AURELIUS

The universe is transformation: life is opinion.
MARCUS AURELIUS

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
MARCUS AURELIUS

Poverty is the mother of crime.
MARCUS AURELIUS

The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.
MARCUS AURELIUS

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
MARCUS AURELIUS

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
MARCUS AURELIUS

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
MARCUS AURELIUS

Each day provides its own gifts.
MARCUS AURELIUS

A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
MARCUS AURELIUS

Confine yourself to the present.
MARCUS AURELIUS

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
MARCUS AURELIUS

Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finis...
MARCUS AURELIUS

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet ...
MARCUS AURELIUS

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.
MARCUS AURELIUS

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.
MARCUS AURELIUS

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
MARCUS AURELIUS

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
MARCUS AURELIUS

If we became buddies, obviously I'd start throwing some cracks at Him.
MARCUS LUTTRELL

I got my service dog when I was medically retired out of the military, and it was the best thing tha...
MARCUS LUTTRELL

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
MARCUS AURELIUS

I think that if you grind your spices and keep them in small batches, you can use them in endless wa...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON

Together we were something less, which felt like such a relief, to not be ourselves for a while.
BEN MARCUS

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.
MARCUS MANILIUS

Certain foods are good for preparing your body for an intense workout and giving you the energy you ...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON

I'm really not a great businessperson. I understand business, and I understand numbers, but I th...
MARCUS LEMONIS

While I hold my own political views, it's important not to get too wrapped up in individual cand...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON

The company's contributions are practically never made on the basis of friendship, party affiliation...
ALAN MARCUS

It's a part of doing business. We're a professional-services firm and we have given to many politici...
ALAN MARCUS

It's not unusual. It's common. And until somebody makes it illegal, they're going to keep doing it.
ALAN MARCUS

We're really looking to branch out into new markets with this technology.
ALAN MARCUS

I think a lot of retailers were playing it a bit more conservative. If you look at it three years ag...
ALAN MARCUS

John and I spoke about it a few times. In fact, we spoke about it in the conference room in Trump To...
ALAN MARCUS

It's incredible. Right now we're about 40 percent up from this time last year. It's been extraordina...
ALAN MARCUS

The whole world is run on bluff.
MARCUS GARVEY

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought t...
MARCUS AURELIUS

Wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair and all the terrible things that happen to us, come beca...
MARCUS COLE

I failed to get into drama school, and my best friend told me I should do stand-up instead. I was al...
MARCUS BRIGSTOCKE

I'd lie in bed in my dormitory and grab at bits of my body, wanting to tear them off... I was so...
MARCUS BRIGSTOCKE

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
MARCUS AURELIUS

For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.
MARCUS AURELIUS

Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for s...
MARCUS AURELIUS

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
MARCUS AURELIUS

When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to lo...
MARCUS AURELIUS

The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
MARCUS AURELIUS

Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music...
GREIL MARCUS

And in the case of superior things like stars, we discover a kind of unity in separation. The higher...
MARCUS AURELIUS

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
MARCUS AURELIUS

Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault o...
MARCUS AURELIUS

A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.
MARCUS AURELIUS

Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.
MARCUS AURELIUS

Our life is what our thoughts make it.
MARCUS AURELIUS

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your est...
MARCUS AURELIUS

We fight our way through the massed and leveled collective safe taste of the Top 40, just looking fo...
GREIL MARCUS

Rock 'n Roll is a combination of good ideas dried up by fads, terrible junk, hideous failings in tas...
GREIL MARCUS

Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.
MARCUS AURELIUS

The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm an...
MARCUS AURELIUS

Your life is what your thoughts make it.
MARCUS AURELIUS

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.
MARCUS AURELIUS

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
MARCUS AURELIUS

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.
MARCUS AURELIUS

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
MARCUS AURELIUS

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you ...
MARCUS GARVEY

The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m/sec/sec.
MARCUS DOLENGO

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, ...
MARCUS AURELIUS

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
MARCUS AURELIUS

No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of...
GREIL MARCUS

Remember how often you have postponed minding your interest, and let slip those opportunities the go...
MARCUS AURELIUS

I have often wondered how it is everyone loves himself more than the rest of men, but yet sets less ...
MARCUS AURELIUS

Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.
MARCUS AURELIUS

It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the l...
GREIL MARCUS

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own ...
MARCUS AURELIUS

A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.
MARCUS AURELIUS

Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, t...
MARCUS AURELIUS

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits...
MARCUS AURELIUS

One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, th...
MARCUS AURELIUS

The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.
MARCUS AURELIUS

Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man--yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. S...
MARCUS AURELIUS

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
MARCUS AURELIUS

Where a man can live, he can also live well.
MARCUS AURELIUS

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
MARCUS AURELIUS

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.
MARCUS AURELIUS

Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man--yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. S...
MARCUS ANTONIUS

Always observe how ephemeral and worthless human things are. Pass then through this little space of ...
MARCUS AURELIUS

Opinion is the main thing which does harm or good in the world. It is our false opinions that ruin u...
MARCUS ANTONIUS

It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths.
GREIL MARCUS

Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself go...
MARCUS AURELIUS

Let it judge that nothing is either bad or good which can happen equally to the bad man and the good...
MARCUS AURELIUS

Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended. [Lat., Frangas enim, citius quam corrigas quae in pravum induerunt.]

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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended. [Lat., Frangas enim, citius quam corrigas quae in pravum induerunt.]

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