black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.

Quintilian

Medicine for the dead is too late.
QUINTILIAN

Death Medicine One Liner
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
QUINTILIAN

Easy Mindset Teaching
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
QUINTILIAN

Awake Dreams Hope
A liar ought to have a good memory.
QUINTILIAN

Goodness Lying Memories
To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
QUINTILIAN

Criticism Development Imagination Mindset Promise
By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
QUINTILIAN

Difference Literature Poet Writing
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.
QUINTILIAN

Impossible Misunderstand Possible Talk Understand
It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
QUINTILIAN

Children Himself Imitation Nurse
It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy’s mind from effort.
QUINTILIAN

Courage Effort Mistake Severe Teacher Worth
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
QUINTILIAN

Art Hide Perfection
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
QUINTILIAN

Difficult Excuse Ourselves
Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
QUINTILIAN

Father Food Nature Poor Stranger Togetherness
If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
QUINTILIAN

Direct Eyes Mindset Reach Work
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
QUINTILIAN

Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
QUINTILIAN

Different Easy Time
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
QUINTILIAN

Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue

The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Quintilian Quotes