The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression. Quintilian More Quotes by Quintilian More Quotes From Quintilian Everything that has a beginning comes to an end. Quintilian ends Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake. Quintilian vain hope dream A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves. Quintilian life-is want art To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination. Quintilian imagination giving boys We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty. Quintilian excuse sloth life A liar should have a good memory. Quintilian honesty motivational memories The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body. Quintilian infinite body mind Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune. Quintilian fear-of-the-future fortune life Prune what is turgid, elevate what is commonplace, arrange what is disorderly, introduce rhythm where the language is harsh, modify where it is too absolute. Quintilian introducing language writing When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield. Quintilian yield defeat hard-work The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity. Quintilian obscurity proportion incapacity Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest. Quintilian jest maxims friendship 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. Quintilian effort teacher boys For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience. Quintilian learning pride teacher Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly. Quintilian great-change effects The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery. Quintilian misery form ideas Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature. Quintilian names men father 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. Quintilian vices mind character It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time. Quintilian variety easier long Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues. Quintilian vices ambition mother
