Quintilian Quotes

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

Restrict
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
QUINTILIAN

Rude
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

Agriculture Profit
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
QUINTILIAN
Medicine for the dead is too late.
QUINTILIAN

Medicine
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
QUINTILIAN
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
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
QUINTILIAN

Technical
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
QUINTILIAN
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
QUINTILIAN

Protection

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