Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
QUINTILIANConscience is a thousand witnesses.
More Quintilian Quotes
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One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
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Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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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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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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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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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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A liar ought to have a good memory.
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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 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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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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