Quintilian Quotes
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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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Laudem virtutis necessitati damus.
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Pectus est enim quod disertos facit, et vis mentis.
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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Qui stultis videri eruditi volunt stulti eruditis videntur.
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Historia et scribitur ad narrandum non ad probandum.
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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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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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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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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Adeo facilius est multa facere quam diu.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Mutos enim nasci et egere omni ratione satius fuisset quam providentiae munera in mutuam perniciem convertere.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.