black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.

Quintilian

While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. The opportunity is lost.
QUINTILIAN

Beginning Lost Mindset Opportunity Time
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
QUINTILIAN

Different Easy Time
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
QUINTILIAN

Beautiful Exact Similar
Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
QUINTILIAN

Change Food Fresh Mindset Stomach
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
QUINTILIAN

Afflict Sense Suffering
The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
QUINTILIAN

Body Infinite Mindset Nature
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
QUINTILIAN

Arrival Genius Maturity
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
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
QUINTILIAN

Alone Light Man Rude
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
QUINTILIAN

Happiness Pleasure Satire
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
QUINTILIAN

Difference Evil Opportunity
The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
QUINTILIAN

Exercise Mindset Subject Vice Virtue
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
QUINTILIAN

Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
Medicine for the dead is too late.
QUINTILIAN

Death Medicine One Liner
For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.
QUINTILIAN

Audience Best Big Pride Teacher Worth
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
QUINTILIAN

Deep Please

Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Quintilian Quotes