Quintilian Quotes - Page 2

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• Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.

  Quintilian

  Ends

  "De Institutione Oratoria". V. 10,

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

  Quintilian

  Broken Heart, Evil, Broken Promises

  "Institutio Oratoria". Textbook by Marcus Fabius Quintilianus, I, 3, 3,

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• A liar should have a good memory.

  Quintilian

  Motivational, Honesty, Memories

  Quintilian (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Quintilian (Illustrated)”, p.1471, Delphi Classics

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• Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.

  Quintilian

  Father, Men, Names

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

  Quintilian

  Life, Fortune, Fear Of The Future

  "De Institutione Oratoria", XII. 5, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 289-93, 1922.

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• A religion without mystics is a philosophy.

  Quintilian

  Philosophy

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• 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

  Teacher, Boys, Effort

  Quintilian (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Quintilian (Illustrated)”, p.78, Delphi Classics

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• Conscience is a thousand witnesses.

  Quintilian

  Witness, Thousand, Conscience

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

  Quintilian

  Winning, Yield, Advantage

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• Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.

  Quintilian

  Mother, Ambition, Vices

  Quintilian (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Quintilian (Illustrated)”, p.26, Delphi Classics

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

  Quintilian

  Laughter, Laughing, Raises

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• 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.

  Quintilian

  Character, Mind, Vices

  Quintilian (1953). “The Instituto Oratoria of Quintilian”

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• Usage is the best language teacher.

  Quintilian

  Teacher, Language, Usage

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

  Quintilian

  Mind, Easier, Teach

  Quintilian (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Quintilian (Illustrated)”, p.69, Delphi Classics

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• If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.

  Quintilian

  Work, Eye, Mind

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

  Quintilian

  Boys, Giving, Imagination

  Quintilian (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Quintilian (Illustrated)”, p.77, Delphi Classics

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• That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.

  Quintilian

  Perfection

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• The perfection of art is to conceal art.

  Quintilian

  Art, Perfection, Design

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• Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
  [Lat., Continuis voluptatibus vicina satietas.]

  Quintilian

  Neighbor, Pleasure, Satiety

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• 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

  Father, Pregnancy, Parent

  Quintilian (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Quintilian (Illustrated)”, p.18, Delphi Classics

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

  Quintilian

  Life, Food, Mind

  Quintilian (1805). “Quinctilian's Institutes of Eloquence: Or, The Art of Speaking in Public, in Every Character and Capacity”, p.59

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

  Quintilian

  Ideas, Misery, Form

  "De Institutione Oratoria", IX, 6, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 637-38, 1922.

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

  Quintilian

  Hard Work, Yield, Defeat

  Quintilian (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Quintilian (Illustrated)”, p.319, Delphi Classics

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• Give me the boy who rouses when he is praised, who profits when he is encouraged and who cries when he is defeated. Such a boy will be fired by ambition; he will be stung by reproach, and animated by preference; never shall I apprehend any bad consequences from idleness in such a boy.

  Quintilian

  Ambition, Boys, Giving

  Quintilian (1805). “Quinctilian's Institutes of Eloquence: Or, The Art of Speaking in Public, in Every Character and Capacity”, p.26

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

  Quintilian

  Song, Men, Rude

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 732-33, De Institutione Oratoria, I. 81, 1922.

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