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Rhetorician Inspirational Quotes (99)

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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
Quintilian
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Usage is the best language teacher.
Quintilian
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There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
Quintilian
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I finally concluded that all failure was from a wobbling will rather than a wobbling wheel.
Frances E. Willard
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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.
Quintilian
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Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
Quintilian
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It is not manly to turn one's back on fortune.
Seneca the Elder
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The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early.
Seneca the Elder
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We are more often frightened than hurt and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
Seneca the Elder
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No evil is without its compensation ... it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss, that troubles us.
Seneca the Elder
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The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
Quintilian
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
Quintilian
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Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
Quintilian
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Prune what is turgid, elevate what is commonplace, arrange what is disorderly, introduce rhythm where the language is harsh, modify where it is too absolute.
Quintilian
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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
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The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back
Seneca the Elder
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It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.
Seneca the Elder
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Add each day something to fortify you against poverty and death.
Seneca the Elder
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We must choose. Be a child of the past with all its crudities and imperfections, its failures and defeats, or a child of the future, the future of symmetry and ultimate success.
Frances E. Willard
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While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. the opportunity is lost.
Quintilian
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Nothing is our except time.
Seneca the Elder
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Malice drinks one-half of its own poison.
Seneca the Elder
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The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.
Seneca the Elder
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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
Quintilian
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