Quintilian Quotes About Ambition

Quotes about: Ambition

• Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.

  Quintilian

  Mother, Ambition, Vices

  Quintilian (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Quintilian (Illustrated)”, p.26, Delphi Classics

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

  Quintilian

  Father, Ambition, Vices

• Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
  [Lat., Licet ipsa vitium sit ambitio, frequenter tamen causa virtutem est.]

  Quintilian

  Ambition, Parent, Vices

• Give me the boy who rouses when he is praised, who profits when he is encouraged and who cries when he is defeated. Such a boy will be fired by ambition; he will be stung by reproach, and animated by preference; never shall I apprehend any bad consequences from idleness in such a boy.

  Quintilian

  Ambition, Boys, Giving

  Quintilian (1805). “Quinctilian's Institutes of Eloquence: Or, The Art of Speaking in Public, in Every Character and Capacity”, p.26

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