104 Quotes by Quintilian

The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.

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

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

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

Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.

He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.

To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.

It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing.

To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.