Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
QUINTILIANConscience is a thousand witnesses.
QUINTILIANNothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
QUINTILIANVirtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
QUINTILIANA great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.
QUINTILIANTo my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
QUINTILIANIt is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy’s mind from effort.
QUINTILIANA laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
QUINTILIANA liar should have a good memory.
QUINTILIANThe learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
QUINTILIANWrite quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
QUINTILIANVerse satire indeed is entirely our own.
QUINTILIANA Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person.
QUINTILIANA man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling in not actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.
QUINTILIANToo exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
QUINTILIANMen, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
QUINTILIANA mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.
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