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Quintilian (Marcus Fabius Quintilian) Quotes
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One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance
of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
[Lat., Illud tamen in primis testandum est, nihil praecepta atque
artes valere nisi adjuvante natura.]
Topic: Ability
Source: Prooemium (I, 4)
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
[Lat., Deficit omne quod nascitur.]
Topic: Beginnings
Source: De Institutione Oratoria (V, 10)
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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
[Lat., Nam in omnibus fere minus valent praecepta quam
experimenta.]
Topic: Experience
Source: De Institutione Oratoria (II, 5, 5)
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken
than mended.
[Lat., Frangas enim, citius quam corrigas quae in pravum
induerunt.]
Topic: Habit
Source: De Institutione Oratoria (I, 3, 3)
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Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a
character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.
Topic: Habit
Source: De Institutione Oratoria (I, 3, 3)
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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
[Lat., Difficultas patrocinia praeteximus segnitiae.]
Topic: Idleness
Source: De Institutione Oratoria (I, 12)
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Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do,
the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no
immaterial accomplishment.
[Lat., Non sest aliena res, quae fere ab honestis negligi solet,
cura bene ac velociter scribendi.]
Topic: Pen
Source: De Institutione Oratoria (I, 5)
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If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest
of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.
[Fr., Qu'on me donne six lignes ecrites de la main du plus
honnete homme, j'y trouverai de quoi le faire pendre.]
Topic: Pen
Source: De Institutione Oratoria (I, 5)
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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
[Lat., Est felicibus difficilis miserarium vera aestimatio.]
Topic: Prosperity
Source: De Institutione Oratoria (IX, 6)
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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.
[Lat., Mutos enim nasci, et egere omni ratione satius fuisset,
quam providentiae munera in mutuam perniciem convertere.]
Topic: Providence
Source: De Institutione Oratoria (XII, 1, 1)
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For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear
the better reason.
[Lat., Nam et Socrati objiciunt comici, docere eum quomodo
pejorem causam meliorem faciat.]
Topic: Reason
Source: De Institutione Oratoria (II, 17)
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Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude
it may be.
[Lat., Etiam singulorum fatigatio quamlibet se rudi modulatione
solatur.]
Topic: Songs
Source: De Institutione Oratoria (I, 81)
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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
[Lat., In totum jurare, nisi ubi necesse est, gravi viro parum
convenit.]
Topic: Swearing
Source: De Institutione Oratoria (IX, 2)
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