Quintilian
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
-Quintilian
alone
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately when lawful, they do not excite desire.
-Quintilian
alone
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
alone
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
-Quintilian
art
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
-Quintilian
dreams
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
-Quintilian
experience
Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.
-Quintilian
fear
Our minds are like our stomaches they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
-Quintilian
food
Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.
-Quintilian
future
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
-Quintilian
hope
To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
-Quintilian
imagination
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
-Quintilian
men
The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
-Quintilian
nature
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
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