Quintilian Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.”

“Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.”

“Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.”

“God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.”

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

“That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.”

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

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

“Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.”

“Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.”