Quotes from Quintilian

Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.

The perfection of art is to conceal art.

The perfection of art is to conceal art.

When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.

To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.

Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.

Our minds are like our stomaches they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.

The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.

Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately when lawful, they do not excite desire.

For it is feeling and force of imagination that makes us eloquent.

As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.

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

Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.

It 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.

In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.

Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.

Our minds are like our stomachs; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetites.

That laugther costs too much which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency.

Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.

We should not write so that it is possible for the reader to understand us, but so that it is impossible for him to misunderstand us.

A liar should have a good memory.

There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish