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Marcus Fabius Quintilian
Roman
Philosopher
About the author
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
Marcus Fabius Quintilian,
Roman
Philosopher
#Fault
#Impression
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
Marcus Fabius Quintilian,
Roman
Philosopher
#Truth
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
Marcus Fabius Quintilian,
Roman
Philosopher
#Art
#Perfection
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
Marcus Fabius Quintilian,
Roman
Philosopher
#Man
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
Marcus Fabius Quintilian,
Roman
Philosopher
#Right
#Idea
#Misery
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
Marcus Fabius Quintilian,
Roman
Philosopher
#Fools
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
Marcus Fabius Quintilian,
Roman
Philosopher
#Vice
#Ambition
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
Marcus Fabius Quintilian,
Roman
Philosopher
#Dreams
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
Marcus Fabius Quintilian,
Roman
Philosopher
#Difficulty
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
Marcus Fabius Quintilian,
Roman
Philosopher
#Evil
#Habits
While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. the opportunity is lost.
Marcus Fabius Quintilian,
Roman
Philosopher
#Opportunity
The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
Marcus Fabius Quintilian,
Roman
Philosopher
#Mind
#Infinite
#Nature
#Body
#Variety
#Gifts
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
Marcus Fabius Quintilian,
Roman
Philosopher
#End
#Beginning
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
Marcus Fabius Quintilian,
Roman
Philosopher
#Reading
#Deep
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
Marcus Fabius Quintilian,
Roman
Philosopher
#Evil
#Opportunity
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
Marcus Fabius Quintilian,
Roman
Philosopher
#Virtue
A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.
Marcus Fabius Quintilian,
Roman
Philosopher
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
Marcus Fabius Quintilian,
Roman
Philosopher
Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.
Marcus Fabius Quintilian,
Roman
Philosopher
#Fear
#Present
#Future
#Fortune
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
Marcus Fabius Quintilian,
Roman
Philosopher
#Desire
#Forbidden
For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
Marcus Fabius Quintilian,
Roman
Philosopher
#Reason
#Man
#Dumb
#Destruction
#Providence
#Gifts
God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
Marcus Fabius Quintilian,
Roman
Philosopher
#Character
#God
#World
#Man
#Nature
#Speech
#Animals
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
Marcus Fabius Quintilian,
Roman
Philosopher
#Perfection
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
Marcus Fabius Quintilian,
Roman
Philosopher
#Experience
It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.
Marcus Fabius Quintilian,
Roman
Philosopher
#Man
#Memory
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
Marcus Fabius Quintilian,
Roman
Philosopher
#Genius
#Maturity
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
Marcus Fabius Quintilian,
Roman
Philosopher
#May
#Men
#Song
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
Marcus Fabius Quintilian,
Roman
Philosopher
#Nothing
#Men
#Change
#Fortune
Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
Marcus Fabius Quintilian,
Roman
Philosopher
#Food
#Change
#Appetite
#Variety