Quintilian

A liar ought to have a good memory.

— Quintilian

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

— Quintilian

A liar should have a good memory.

— Quintilian

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

— Quintilian

Lately we have had many losses.

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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.

— Quintilian

Usage is the best language teacher.

— Quintilian

She abounds with lucious faults.

— Quintilian

One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.

— Quintilian

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

— Quintilian

In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

— Quintilian

The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.

— Quintilian

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

— Quintilian

Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.

— Quintilian

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

— Quintilian

An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.

— Quintilian

Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education. [Lat., Virtus, etiamsi quosdam impetus a natura…

— Quintilian

A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.

— Quintilian

For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.

— Quintilian

A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling inot actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can…

— Quintilian

We should not write so that it is possible for the reader to understand us, but so that it is impossible for…

— Quintilian

Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.

— Quintilian

To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man. [Lat., In totum jurare, nisi ubi necesse est, gravi viro parum…

— Quintilian

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

— Quintilian

Minds that are stupid and incapable of science are in the order of nature to be regarded as monsters and other extraordinary…

— Quintilian

Give me the boy who rouses when he is praised, who profits when he is encouraged and who cries when he is…

— Quintilian

That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.

— Quintilian

Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.

— Quintilian

We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.

— Quintilian

Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.

— Quintilian

Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.

— Quintilian

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

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A religion without mystics is a philosophy.

— Quintilian

Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.

— Quintilian

When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.

— Quintilian

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

— Quintilian

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

— Quintilian

Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.

— Quintilian

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

— Quintilian

Conscience is a thousand witnesses.

— Quintilian