Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
QUINTILIANIn a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
More Quintilian Quotes
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Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
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A liar must have a good memory.
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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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She abounds with lucious faults.
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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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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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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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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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