Quotes Marcus Fabius Quintilian

A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue....

A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too...

Everything that has a beginning comes to an end....

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

For it would have been better that man should have been born...

Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawfu...

God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of th...

He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in th...

In almost everything, experience is more valuable than prece...

It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory....

It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arri...

Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however ...

Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of for...

Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the ch...

That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes....

The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind ...

The perfection of art is to conceal art....

The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an ex...

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

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise se...

Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the par...

To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable...

Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake....

We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty....

We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide....