Quintilian

It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults…

Our minds are like our stomaches they are whetted by the change of their food…

When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield…

To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical…

Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be…

Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune…

As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and…

Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake…

The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost…

In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept…

The perfection of art is to conceal art…

Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately when lawful, they do not excite desire…