Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
QUINTILIANHe who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
More Quintilian Quotes
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God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
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Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Usage is the best language teacher.
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It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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A liar must have a good memory.
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.
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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.
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Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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She abounds with lucious faults.
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Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.
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By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
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While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Medicine for the dead is too late.
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