It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a… — Quintilian Copy Share Image
Minds that are stupid and incapable of science are in the order of nature to be regarded as monsters and other extraordinary… — Quintilian Copy Share Image
To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination. — Quintilian Copy Share Image
The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of… — Quintilian Copy Share Image
The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body. — Quintilian Copy Share Image
If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind. — Quintilian Copy Share Image
“In writing are the roots, in writing are the foundations of eloquence; by writing resources are stored up, as it were, in a sacred… — Quintilian Copy Share Image
Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning. — Quintilian Copy Share Image
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues. — Quintilian Copy Share Image
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time. — Quintilian Copy Share Image
One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy. — Quintilian Copy Share Image
Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite. — Quintilian Copy Share Image
The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it… — Quintilian Copy Share Image
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity. — Quintilian Copy Share Image
