Usage is the best language teacher.
QUINTILIANFrom writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.
More Quintilian Quotes
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Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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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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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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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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Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
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A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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