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"Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim."
"Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly."
"Life is just repeated attempts at trying to do better."
"All work is seed sown. It grows and spreads and sows itself anew."
"Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them."
"The merit of all things lies in their difficulty."
"If you invest nothing, the reward is worth little."
"The whole world's effort of working hard goes to waste. Just as the bull [that turns the wheels on the oil mill] gets a piece of oil-cake (as a reward), the wife gives the husband a piece of handvo (savory lentil and rice cake), and so the work continues. All day long, one is producing like the bull in the oil mill."
"The bigger the 'flat' [apartment], the harder one has to work. If the 'flat' is worth six hundred thousand, then he has to work six times as hard. If it is three hundred thousand, he has to work three times over. One simply has to keep on working hard, doesn't he?"
Explore more quotes by Quintilian
"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."
"Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture."
"To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination."
"It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate."
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