The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression. Quintilian More Quotes by Quintilian More Quotes From Quintilian When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield. Quintilian yield advantage winning For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason. Quintilian comic reason Minds that are stupid and incapable of science are in the order of nature to be regarded as monsters and other extraordinary phenomena; minds of this sort are rare. Hence I conclude that there are great resources to be found in children, which are suffered to vanish with their years. It is evident, therefore, that it is not of nature, but of our own negligence, we ought to complain. Quintilian stupid education children Give me the boy who rouses when he is praised, who profits when he is encouraged and who cries when he is defeated. Such a boy will be fired by ambition; he will be stung by reproach, and animated by preference; never shall I apprehend any bad consequences from idleness in such a boy. Quintilian ambition giving boys That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes. Quintilian perfection One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy. Quintilian efficacy capacity natural Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues. Quintilian parent vices ambition Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering. Quintilian anticipation suffering doe From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly. Quintilian results doe writing Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned. Quintilian fool hypocrisy wish It is not that we don't have time, it is that we make poor use of it. Quintilian Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues. Quintilian Our minds are like our stomachs; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetites. Quintilian That laugther costs too much which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency. Quintilian A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much. Quintilian costs laugh too too-much
