Quintilian Quotes

Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
QUINTILIAN

Satire
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

Misunderstand
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
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
QUINTILIAN
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
QUINTILIAN

Easy Prosperity
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
QUINTILIAN
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
QUINTILIAN
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
QUINTILIAN
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
QUINTILIAN
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
QUINTILIAN

Comic

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