Author

Quintilian

12 quotes Popular first.

0 0
“Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.”— Quintilian
0 0
“Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately when lawful, they do not excite desire.”— Quintilian
0 0
“As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.”— Quintilian
0 0
“The perfection of art is to conceal art.”— Quintilian
0 0
“Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.”— Quintilian
0 0
“In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.”— Quintilian
0 0
“Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.”— Quintilian
0 0
“Our minds are like our stomaches they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.”— Quintilian
0 0
“When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.”— Quintilian
0 0
“To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.”— Quintilian
0 0
“The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.”— Quintilian
0 0
“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.”— Quintilian