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Quotes by Quintilian

Quintilian

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

Quintilian

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

Quintilian

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

Quintilian

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

Quintilian

“A liar should have a good memory”

Quintilian

“In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion”

Quintilian

“When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.”

Quintilian

“Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.”

Quintilian

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

Quintilian

“It is much easier to try ones hand at many things than to concentrate ones powers on one thing.”

Quintilian

If you direct your whole thought to work itself none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.

Quintilian

A liar should have a good memory.

Quintilian

The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.

Quintilian

It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boys mind from effort.

Quintilian

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

Quintilian

In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

Quintilian

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

Quintilian

To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.

Quintilian

The perfection of art is to conceal art.

Quintilian

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

Quintilian