Quintilian Quotes

» A liar should have a good memory.

» Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.

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

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

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

» For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.

» To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.

» 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.

» 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.

» When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.

» Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.

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

» When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.

» Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.

» It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing.

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