QUINTILIAN Quotes
(35-95), Roman rhetorician
Without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the anticipation of suffering.
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
Other parts of the body assist the speaker but the hands speak themselves.—By them we ask, promise, invoke, dismiss, threaten, entreat, deprecate.—By them we express fear, joy, grief, our doubts, assent, or penitence; we show moderation or profusion, and mark number and time.
That laughter costs too much which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency.
Our minds are like our stomachs; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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