A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person.
QUINTILIANA Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person.
QUINTILIANIt is the heart which inspires eloquence.
QUINTILIANA liar should have a good memory.
QUINTILIANLet us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
QUINTILIANFor the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
QUINTILIANVerse satire indeed is entirely our own.
QUINTILIANAn evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
QUINTILIANToo exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
QUINTILIANLately we have had many losses.
QUINTILIANThe prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
QUINTILIANThe mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
QUINTILIANA laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
QUINTILIANWhen we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
QUINTILIANIn a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
QUINTILIANNothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
QUINTILIANIn almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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