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Explore our hand-picked selection of 91 inspiring quotes by Quintilian.

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  • Born: 35
  • Died: 100
    • Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
    Satire Verses
    For comic writers charge socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
    Reason Comic
    It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
    Maturity Genius Happens
    Let us never adopt the maxim, rather lose our friend than our jest.
    Friendship Jest Maxims
    In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
    Journey Ideas Crowds
    The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.
    Soul Obscurity Rust
    The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
    Faults Brilliant Excellent
    By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
    Writing Writing Well Wells
    From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.
    Writing Doe Results
    A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling inot actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.
    Men Trying Followers
    Lately we have had many losses.
    Loss
    (slaughter) means blood and iron. [lat., coedes videtur significare sanguinem et ferrum.]
    War Mean Blood
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