104 Quotes by 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.

In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.

Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.

That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.

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

When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.

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

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.