104 Quotes by Quintilian

She abounds with lucious faults.

Medicine for the dead is too late

Usage is the best language teacher.

A religion without mystics is a philosophy.

Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures. [Lat., Continuis voluptatibus vicina satietas.]

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish. [Lat., Qui stultis videri eruditi volunt, stulti eruditis videntur.]

For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.

Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.

The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.