What did Quintilian mean by: Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire. - Quintilian Rhetorician · Spain Copy
+ We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty. Feraz Zeid, June 22, 2023December 12, 2023, Quintilian, Excuse, Sloth, 0 - Quintilian Rhetorician · Spain
+ A religion without mystics is a philosophy. Feraz Zeid, June 30, 2023December 12, 2023, Quintilian, Philosophy, 0 - Quintilian Rhetorician · Spain
+ A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Quintilian, Generous, Persons, 0 - Quintilian Rhetorician · Spain
+ 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
+ Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming. Feraz Zeid, August 1, 2023December 12, 2023, Quintilian, Becoming, 0 - Quintilian Rhetorician · Spain
+ Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Quintilian, Change, Money, 0 - Quintilian Rhetorician · Spain
+ Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Quintilian, Anticipation, Suffering, 0 - Quintilian Rhetorician · Spain
+ For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Quintilian, Comic, 0 - Quintilian Rhetorician · Spain
The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
The most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures, consists in promoting the pleasure of others. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
A prince wants only the pleasure of private life to complete his happiness. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Those who desire only techniques will never understand this art. It is everything beyond that - Masaaki Hatsumi Martial artist · Japan
The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
There is no greater pleasure for me than to practice and exhibit my art. - Ludwig van Beethoven Composer · Germany
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure. - Quintilian Rhetorician · Spain
Anyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is. - Jean Genet Playwright · France
