Quintilian Quotes

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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
Quintilian

Late, Begin, Grows

A liar should have a good memory.
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Good, Liar, Memory

The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art, Perfection, Conceal

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

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

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Wise, Wish, Foolish

We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Excuse, Difficulty, Sloth

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.
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Reason, Rather, Born

He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Evil, Speaks, Differs

It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.
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Good, Liar, Memory

It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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Words, Her, Child

When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat, Wisest, Inevitable

A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Laugh, Virtue, Costs

A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.
Quintilian

Laugh, Costs, Expense

Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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End, Everything, Beginning

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

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.
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Nature, God, Character

It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Maturity, Genius, Happens

We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Deep, Rather, Minds

While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin, the opportunity is lost.
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Lost, Making, Minds

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

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

For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Mind, Before, Teach

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

In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
Quintilian

Experience, Everything, Almost

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Biography

Nationality: Roman

Born: 35

Died: 95

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