Quintilian Quotes (17 Quotes)


    When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.

    It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.

    Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.

    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.


    While we deliberate about beginning it is all ready too late to begin.

    Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.

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

    When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.

    That laughter costs too much, which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency

    In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion

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

    For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.

    The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.

    It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.

    Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.

    As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.


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