Quintilian

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

Quintilian

Study depends on the good will of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.

Quintilian

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

Quintilian

The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.

Quintilian

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

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

Quintilian

The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.

Quintilian

There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.

Quintilian

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

Quintilian

Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.

Quintilian