Quintilian Quotes - Page 2

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• Prune what is turgid, elevate what is commonplace, arrange what is disorderly, introduce rhythm where the language is harsh, modify where it is too absolute.

  Quintilian

  Writing, Language, Introducing

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• For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.

  Quintilian

  Men, Should Have, Dumb

  "De Institutione Oratoria". Book by Quintilian,

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

  Quintilian

  Broken Heart, Evil, Broken Promises

  "Institutio Oratoria". Textbook by Marcus Fabius Quintilianus, I, 3, 3,

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• A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.

  Quintilian

  Art, Want, Life Is

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• Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.

  Quintilian

  Hypocrisy, Wish, Fool

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

  Quintilian

  Father, Ambition, Vices

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• To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
  [Lat., In totum jurare, nisi ubi necesse est, gravi viro parum convenit.]

  Quintilian

  Men, Honorable Man, Becoming

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

  Quintilian

  Memories, Liars, Lying

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 485-87, IV. 2. 91, 1922.

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• The perfection of art is to conceal art.

  Quintilian

  Art, Perfection, Design

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• Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.

  Quintilian

  Great Change, Effects

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• Lately we have had many losses.

  Quintilian

  Loss

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• It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.

  Quintilian

  Teacher, Boys, Effort

  Quintilian (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Quintilian (Illustrated)”, p.78, Delphi Classics

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• That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.

  Quintilian

  Perfection

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• A religion without mystics is a philosophy.

  Quintilian

  Philosophy

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

  Quintilian

  Change, Money, Men

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 289-93, De Institutione Oratoria, CCLX, 1922.

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• When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.

  Quintilian

  Hard Work, Yield, Defeat

  Quintilian (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Quintilian (Illustrated)”, p.319, Delphi Classics

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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.

  Quintilian

  Life, Food, Mind

  Quintilian (1805). “Quinctilian's Institutes of Eloquence: Or, The Art of Speaking in Public, in Every Character and Capacity”, p.59

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• Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.

  Quintilian

  Laughter, Laughing, Raises

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

  Quintilian

  Desire, Pleasure, Forbidden Fruit

  "Declamationes". Book by Quintilian,

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

  Quintilian

  Ideas, Misery, Form

  "De Institutione Oratoria", IX, 6, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 637-38, 1922.

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• Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.

  Quintilian

  Suffering, Doe, Anticipation

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• When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.

  Quintilian

  Winning, Yield, Advantage

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• To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.

  Quintilian

  Boys, Giving, Imagination

  Quintilian (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Quintilian (Illustrated)”, p.77, Delphi Classics

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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.

  Quintilian

  Powerful, Character, Animal

  "Institutes of Oratory (Volume II)". Book by Quintilian, 95 CE.

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• While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.

  Quintilian

  Too Late, Pondering, Late

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