Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
QUINTILIANConscience is a thousand witnesses.
QUINTILIANAlthough virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
QUINTILIANAmbition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
QUINTILIANThe perfection of art is to conceal art.
QUINTILIANWhen defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
QUINTILIANWe should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.
QUINTILIANIt is much easier to try one’s hand at many things than to concentrate one’s powers on one thing.
QUINTILIANSatiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
QUINTILIANIt seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
QUINTILIANThe learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
QUINTILIANA liar must have a good memory.
QUINTILIANA religion without mystics is a philosophy.
QUINTILIANFrom writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.
QUINTILIANSuffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
QUINTILIANThose who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
QUINTILIANIn a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
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