Quote

An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.

Quintilian

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Quintilian
Lawyer
Pedagogue
Poet
Rhetorician
Teacher
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus
Marcus Fabius Quintilian
Opportunity
Doer
Differs
Doers
Speaker
Speakers
Evil

More quotes by Quintilian

Image
She abounds with lucious faults.
Quintilian
Image
Lately we have had many losses.
Quintilian
Image
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
Quintilian
Image
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
Quintilian
Image
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
Quintilian
Image
We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.
Quintilian
Image
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
Quintilian
Image
From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.
Quintilian
Image
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
Quintilian
Image
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
Quintilian
Image
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
Image
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
Image
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
Quintilian
Image
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
Quintilian
Image
In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
Quintilian
Image
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
Quintilian
Image
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
Quintilian
Image
While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. the opportunity is lost.
Quintilian
Image
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
Image
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
Quintilian