While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
QUINTILIANWhile we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
QUINTILIANFear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
QUINTILIANLately we have had many losses.
QUINTILIANThere is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
QUINTILIANThe prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
QUINTILIANOur minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
QUINTILIANA liar must have a good memory.
QUINTILIANNature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
QUINTILIANThe obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
QUINTILIANThe soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.
QUINTILIANA man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling in not actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.
QUINTILIANEverything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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.
QUINTILIANIt is much easier to try one’s hand at many things than to concentrate one’s powers on one thing.
QUINTILIANToo exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
QUINTILIANA great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.
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