Quintilian

While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin, the opportunity is lost.

Quintilian

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

Quintilian

One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.

Quintilian

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

Quintilian

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

Quintilian

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

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

Quintilian

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

Quintilian

A liar should have a good memory.

Quintilian

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

Quintilian