"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."
Marcus Fabius Quintilian
"A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much."
Marcus Fabius Quintilian
"A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue."
Marcus Fabius Quintilian
"Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues."
Marcus Fabius Quintilian
"Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it."
Marcus Fabius Quintilian
"While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it."
Marcus Fabius Quintilian
"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."
Marcus Fabius Quintilian
"Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be."
Marcus Fabius Quintilian
"The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body."
Marcus Fabius Quintilian
"The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery."
Marcus Fabius Quintilian
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