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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 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 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) Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended. [Lat., Frangas enim,...
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