The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body

Quote by Marcus Fabius Quintilian

Topics: Nature Quotes

The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.

The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.

The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.

The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.

Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.

Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.

To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.

To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.

We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.

We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

The perfection of art is to conceal art.

The perfection of art is to conceal art.

For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.

For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.

We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.

We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.

A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.

A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.

For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void...

For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void...

He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks...

He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks...

Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.

Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.

Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.

Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.

While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. the opportunity...

While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. the opportunity...

That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.

That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.

A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.

A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.

It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.

It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.

In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.