black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.

Quintilian

There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
QUINTILIAN

Appearance Teaching
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
QUINTILIAN

Poet Quick Writing Yourself
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
QUINTILIAN

Easy Mindset Teaching
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
QUINTILIAN

Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
For 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.
QUINTILIAN

Better Born Destruction Dumb Man Neighbor Reason
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
QUINTILIAN

Fear Fortune Future Present
From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.
QUINTILIAN

Fast Oneself Result Writing
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
QUINTILIAN

Ourselves Verse
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
QUINTILIAN

Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
QUINTILIAN

Crowd Journey Seclusion
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
QUINTILIAN

Beginning Deliberate Growth
A liar must have a good memory.
QUINTILIAN

Goodness Lying Memories
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
QUINTILIAN

Experience Value
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.
QUINTILIAN

Animal Creation Faculty God Impression Nature Powerful Talk
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
QUINTILIAN

Deep Please
A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person.
QUINTILIAN

Generosity Herself Money Person Woman

For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Quintilian Quotes