Quintilian Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

• We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.

  Quintilian

  Life, Sloth, Excuse

  "Institutio Oratoria". Textbook by Marcus Fabius Quintilianus, I. 12,

• Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.

  Quintilian

  Life, Food, Mind

  Quintilian (1805). “Quinctilian's Institutes of Eloquence: Or, The Art of Speaking in Public, in Every Character and Capacity”, p.59

• Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.

  Quintilian

  Life, Fortune, Fear Of The Future

  "De Institutione Oratoria", XII. 5, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 289-93, 1922.

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