While we ponder when to begin it becomes too late.
¶ De Institutione Oratoria
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Marcus Fabius Quintilian (39-90) Roman orator
Studium discendi voluntate, quae cogi non potest, constat.
[Study depends on the good will of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.]
¶ De Institutione Oratoria, Book III, ch. 8
We should not write so that it is possible for [the reader] to understand us, but so that it is impossible for him to misunderstand us.
¶ De Institutione Oratoria, Book VIII, ch. 2, l. 24
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