Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
QUINTILIANNothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
QUINTILIANA Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person.
QUINTILIANIt is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
QUINTILIANThe prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
QUINTILIANThe gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
QUINTILIANAmbition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
QUINTILIANThere is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
QUINTILIANA religion without mystics is a philosophy.
QUINTILIANTo swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
QUINTILIANWhere evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
QUINTILIANIn a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
QUINTILIANMen, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
QUINTILIANIt seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
QUINTILIANA liar ought to have a good memory.
QUINTILIANThe perfection of art is to conceal art.
QUINTILIANWhen we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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