Quotes from Quintilian

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

Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.

In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.

The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.

Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.

Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.

She abounds with lucious faults.

A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.

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

Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.

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

While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.

Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.

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

Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.