Quote

Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.

Quintilian

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Quintilian
Lawyer
Pedagogue
Poet
Rhetorician
Teacher
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus
Marcus Fabius Quintilian
Vice
Vices
Ambition
Virtue
Father
May

More quotes by Quintilian

Image
Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
Quintilian
Image
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
Quintilian
Image
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
Quintilian
Image
A liar ought to have a good memory.
Quintilian
Image
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
Quintilian
Image
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
Quintilian
Image
While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. the opportunity is lost.
Quintilian
Image
Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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
A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised not so, if she is generous with her person
Quintilian
Image
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
Quintilian
Image
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
Quintilian
Image
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
Image
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
Quintilian
Image
It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
Quintilian
Image
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.
Quintilian
Image
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
Quintilian
Image
Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
Quintilian