3 December 2020 Quintilian It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy’s mind from effort.
3 December 2020 Quintilian The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
3 December 2020 Quintilian Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
3 December 2020 Quintilian Our minds are like our stomaches they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
3 December 2020 Quintilian To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
3 December 2020 Quintilian Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately when lawful, they do not excite desire.
3 December 2020 Quintilian As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
