Quintilian Quotes

It is much easier to try one’s hand at many things than to concentrate one’s powers on one thing.
QUINTILIAN

Easy Hand Oneself
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
QUINTILIAN
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
QUINTILIAN
Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.
QUINTILIAN

Complimentary Raise
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
QUINTILIAN

Honor
Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
QUINTILIAN
If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
QUINTILIAN

Direct Mindset
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
QUINTILIAN

Goal
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
QUINTILIAN
From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.
QUINTILIAN

Fast Oneself

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