Quintilian on mindset
Quintilian87 quotes“Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.”
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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
QuintilianQuintilian We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
QuintilianQuintilian While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
QuintilianQuintilian It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
QuintilianQuintilian Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
QuintilianQuintilian Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
QuintilianQuintilian Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
QuintilianQuintilian He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
QuintilianQuintilian Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
QuintilianQuintilian The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
QuintilianQuintilian That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
QuintilianQuintilian Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
QuintilianQuintilian God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
QuintilianQuintilian Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.
QuintilianQuintilian One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
QuintilianQuintilian A liar should have a good memory.
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