black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.

Quintilian

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

Appearance Teaching
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
QUINTILIAN

Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
QUINTILIAN

Father Food Nature Poor Stranger Togetherness
A liar must have a good memory.
QUINTILIAN

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

Experience Value
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
QUINTILIAN

Examination Expectation Time
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
QUINTILIAN

Advice Beginning End Proverb
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
QUINTILIAN

Easy Mindset Teaching
The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
QUINTILIAN

Exercise Mindset Subject Vice Virtue
Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
QUINTILIAN

Change Food Fresh Mindset Stomach
Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
QUINTILIAN

Beginning Herself Learning Nature Touch Virtue
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
QUINTILIAN

Defeat Protection Wisdom
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
QUINTILIAN

Change Dangerous Fortune
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
QUINTILIAN

Art Feeling Learning Pleasure Reason Understand
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
QUINTILIAN

Beginning Deliberate Growth

A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Quintilian Quotes