104 Quotes by Quintilian

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

Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.

Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.

Lately we have had many losses.

A liar must have a good memory. -Mendacem oportet esse memorem

That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.

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

Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.

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