Quintilian

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

Quintilian

As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.

Quintilian

By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.

Quintilian

Conscience is as good as a thousand witnesses.

Quintilian

Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.

Quintilian

For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.

Quintilian

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

Quintilian

Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.

Quintilian

Give me the boy who rouses when he is praised, who profits when he is encouraged and who cries when he is defeated. Such a boy will be fired by ambition; he will be stung by reproach, and animated by preference; never shall I apprehend any bad consequences from idleness in such a boy.

Quintilian

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.

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