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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Pectus est enim quod disertos facit, et vis mentis.
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Laudem virtutis necessitati damus.
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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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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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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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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Adeo facilius est multa facere quam diu.
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A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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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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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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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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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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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.
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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.