Quintilian Quotes
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Adeo facilius est multa facere quam diu.
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Pectus est enim quod disertos facit, et vis mentis.
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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.
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Sit ergo nobis orator quem constituimus is qui a M. Catone finitur vir bonus dicendi peritus, verum, id quod et ille posuit prius et ipsa natura potius ac maius est, utique vir bonus.
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Historia et scribitur ad narrandum non ad probandum.
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Et hercule quantumlibet secreta studia contulerint, est tamen proprius quidam fori profectus, alia lux, alia veri discriminis facies, plusque, si separes, usus sine doctrina quam citra usum doctrina valeat.
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Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.
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Quamlibet multa egerimus, quodam tamen modo recentes sumus ad id quod incipimus. quis non obtundi potest, si per totum diem cuiuscunque artis unum magistrum ferat? mutatione recreabitur sicut in cibis, quorum diversitate reficitur stomachus et pluribus minore fastidio alitur.
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A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
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A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.
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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Qui stultis videri eruditi volunt stulti eruditis videntur.
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Mutos enim nasci et egere omni ratione satius fuisset quam providentiae munera in mutuam perniciem convertere.
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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
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It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.