Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
QUINTILIANNothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
QUINTILIANFear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
QUINTILIANForbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
QUINTILIANEverything that has a beginning comes to an end.
QUINTILIANNature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
QUINTILIANFor it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
QUINTILIANThough ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
QUINTILIANAmbition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
QUINTILIANIt is much easier to try one’s hand at many things than to concentrate one’s powers on one thing.
QUINTILIANVain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
QUINTILIANA religion without mystics is a philosophy.
QUINTILIANLately we have had many losses.
QUINTILIANWhile we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
QUINTILIANConsequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
QUINTILIANConscience is a thousand witnesses.
QUINTILIANAn evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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