A liar should have a good memory. ~Quintilian
Good Memory Liar
As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone. ~Quintilian
Parents Alone Educated
Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture. ~Quintilian
Work Talent Student
For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor. ~Quintilian
Man Neighbor Better
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire. ~Quintilian
Alone Loved Desire
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept. ~Quintilian
Experience Everything
It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory. ~Quintilian
Good Memory Man
It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing. ~Quintilian
Try Hand One Thing
It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate. ~Quintilian
Words Child Her
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
Teacher Mind Effort
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be. ~Quintilian
Alone May Men
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune. ~Quintilian
Change Money Men
Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite. ~Quintilian
Change Food Minds
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes. ~Quintilian
Perfection Soon Which
The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body. ~Quintilian
Nature Mind Body
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
Character Mind Virtue
The perfection of art is to conceal art. ~Quintilian
Art Perfection Conceal
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish. ~Quintilian
Wise Wish Fools
Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues. ~Quintilian
Ambition Virtues Cause
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own. ~Quintilian
Satire Own Verse