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Quintilian [35-95] Roman

Rank: 101
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Marcus Fabius Quintilianus was a Roman rhetorician from Hispania, widely referred to in medieval schools of rhetoric and in Renaissance writing.

Alone, Art, Change, Dreams, Food, Imagination, Men, Money, Teacher, Wisdom

Quote	Tags	Rank
The perfection of art is to conceal art.	Art	101
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.	Alone, Men	102
It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.		103
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.		104
Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.	Change, Food	105
A liar should have a good memory.		106
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.	Teacher	107
The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.		108
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.	Money	109
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.		110
While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin, the opportunity is lost.		111
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.		112
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.		113
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.		114
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.		115
For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.		116
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.	Alone	117
As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.	Alone	118
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.		119
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.		120
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.		121
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.		122
A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.		123
It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.		124
Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.		125
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.	Wisdom	126
Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.		201
The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.		202
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.		203
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.	Dreams	204
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.		205
God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.		206
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.		207
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.		208
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.		209
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.		210
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.		211
To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.	Imagination	212
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.		213
It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing.		214
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.		215
Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.		216
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.		217
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.		218

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