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Quintilian Quotes

b. 100

Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (c. 35 – c. 100), was a Roman rhetorician. His De Institutione Oratoria was widely referred to in medieval schools of rhetoric and in Renaissance writing.

Also known as: Marcus Fabius Quintilian, Quintilian, Marcus Fabius

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Too exact, and rather studious of similitude than of beauty.

For it is feeling and force of imagination that makes us eloquent.

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

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

The perfection of art is to conceal art.

In Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)

Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.

An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.

To swear, except when necessary, is unbecoming to an honorable man.

In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

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

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

Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.

The practice of educated men is the best standard of language, just as the lives of the good are our pattern in morals.

While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.

Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.

For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.

Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.

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

Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.

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