What did Quintilian mean by: For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set. - Quintilian Rhetorician · Spain Copy
+ Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Quintilian, Fool, Wise, Wish, 0 - Quintilian Rhetorician · Spain
+ A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue. Feraz Zeid, August 19, 2023December 12, 2023, Quintilian, Cost, Laughing, 0 - Quintilian Rhetorician · Spain
+ One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Quintilian, Impossible, Language, Writing, 0 - Quintilian Rhetorician · Spain
+ Usage is the best language teacher. Feraz Zeid, September 8, 2023December 24, 2023, Quintilian, Language, Teacher, 0 - Quintilian Rhetorician · Spain
+ We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty. Feraz Zeid, June 22, 2023December 12, 2023, Quintilian, Excuse, Sloth, 0 - Quintilian Rhetorician · Spain
+ The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Quintilian, Obscurity, Proportion, 0 - Quintilian Rhetorician · Spain
+ Everything that has a beginning comes to an end. Feraz Zeid, October 21, 2023December 26, 2023, Quintilian, End, 0 - Quintilian Rhetorician · Spain
+ That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes. Feraz Zeid, June 27, 2023December 12, 2023, Quintilian, Perfection, 0 - Quintilian Rhetorician · Spain
One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds – habits and novelty. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Timorous minds are much more inclined to deliberate than to resolve. - Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Clergy · France
I didn’t mind my own company as a child; I was happy playing alone in the sandpit. - Michael Leunig Cartoonist · Australia
