Marcus Fabius Quintilian Quotes

» We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.

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

» He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.

» That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.

» The perfection of art is to conceal art.

» While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. the opportunity is lost.

» It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.

» Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.

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

» Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.

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

» We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.

» It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.

» Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.

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

» 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.

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

» To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.

» The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.

» Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.

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

» 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.

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

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

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

» 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.

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

» The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.

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