quintilian Quotes
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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
“The perfection of art is to conceal art.”
- Quintilian
“Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.”
- Quintilian
“Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.”
- Quintilian
“When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.”
- Quintilian
“Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately when lawful, they do not excite desire.”
- Quintilian
“Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.”
- Quintilian
“Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.”
- 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