As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone. QUINTILIAN AloneEducationFatherMyselfParentsPossibleRegardRestrict
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be. QUINTILIAN AloneLightManRude
Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture. QUINTILIAN AgricultureProfitStudentTalentWork
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity. QUINTILIAN DifferenceEvilOpportunity
A 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. QUINTILIAN AdmireArtConsistGreatnessLifeOurselves
It is much easier to try one’s hand at many things than to concentrate one’s powers on one thing. QUINTILIAN EasyHandOneselfPowerTry
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure. QUINTILIAN ArtFeelingLearningPleasureReasonUnderstand
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly. QUINTILIAN PoetQuickWritingYourself
Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision. QUINTILIAN ComplimentaryDesignLaughterRaise
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man. QUINTILIAN ExceptionHonorManNecessary
Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature. QUINTILIAN FatherFoodNaturePoorStrangerTogetherness
If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind. QUINTILIAN DirectEyesMindsetReachWork
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand. QUINTILIAN GoalPerspectivePossible
From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly. QUINTILIAN FastOneselfResultWriting
We 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. QUINTILIAN ImpossibleMisunderstandPossibleTalkUnderstand
A 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. QUINTILIAN EqualityFollowHimselfManQuiteSuccess
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned. QUINTILIAN AppearanceFoolsLearning
