Quintilian

a liar should have a good memory ↗

— Quintilian

#inspirational

A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person ↗

— Quintilian

#money

The perfection of art is to conceal art. ↗

— Quintilian

#conceal #perfection

The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body. ↗

— Quintilian

#body #differs #gifts #infinite #mind

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish. ↗

— Quintilian

#appear #foolish #fools #seem #those

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

#better #born #destruction #dumb #employ

When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield. ↗

— Quintilian

#inevitable #wisest #yield

It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate. ↗

— Quintilian

#child #first #hears #her #imitate

A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue. ↗

— Quintilian

#costs #expense #laugh #much #too

Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be. ↗

— Quintilian

#alone #even #however #labors #lighten