Quintilian Quotes About Virtue

Quotes about: Virtue

• Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.

  Quintilian

  Mother, Ambition, Vices

  Quintilian (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Quintilian (Illustrated)”, p.26, Delphi Classics

• Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.

  Quintilian

  Finishing, Virtue, Finishing Touches

• Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.

  Quintilian

  Father, Ambition, Vices

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

  Quintilian

  Laughing, Cost, Too Much

  "Institutio Oratoria". Textbook by Marcus Fabius Quintilianus, VI. 3. 5,

• 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.

  Quintilian

  Character, Mind, Vices

  Quintilian (1953). “The Instituto Oratoria of Quintilian”

• Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
  [Lat., Licet ipsa vitium sit ambitio, frequenter tamen causa virtutem est.]

  Quintilian

  Ambition, Parent, Vices

• Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
  [Lat., Virtus, etiamsi quosdam impetus a natura sumit, tamen perficienda doctrina est.]

  Quintilian

  Virtue, Impetus

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