While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
QUINTILIANSuffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
More Quintilian Quotes
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling in not actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.
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That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.
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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Usage is the best language teacher.
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Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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She abounds with lucious faults.
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Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
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Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.
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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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It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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