Quintilian Quotes
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It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
— Quintilian
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
— Quintilian
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
— Quintilian
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
— Quintilian
It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing.
— Quintilian
A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.
— Quintilian
Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
— Quintilian
Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
— Quintilian
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
— Quintilian
From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.
— Quintilian
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
— Quintilian
To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
— Quintilian
A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.
— Quintilian
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
— Quintilian
One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
— Quintilian
Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
— Quintilian
Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.
— Quintilian
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
— Quintilian
The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
— Quintilian
A liar ought to have a good memory.
— Quintilian
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
— Quintilian
Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
— Quintilian
She abounds with lucious faults.
— Quintilian
Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
— Quintilian
Usage is the best language teacher.
— Quintilian
Lately we have had many losses.
— Quintilian
By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
— Quintilian
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
— Quintilian
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
— Quintilian
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
— Quintilian
As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
— Quintilian
Medicine for the dead is too late
— Quintilian
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.
— Quintilian
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
[Lat., Continuis voluptatibus vicina satietas.] — Quintilian
[Lat., Continuis voluptatibus vicina satietas.] — Quintilian
If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
— Quintilian
For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.
— Quintilian
It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
— Quintilian
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
— Quintilian