What did Quintilian mean by: Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest. - 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
+ Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Quintilian, Finishing, Virtue, 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
+ In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Quintilian, Crowds, Ideas, Journey, 0 - Quintilian Rhetorician · Spain
+ It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Quintilian, Genius, Maturity, 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
+ A liar should have a good memory. Feraz Zeid, August 4, 2023December 12, 2023, Quintilian, Honesty, Memories, Motivational, 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
Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other’s little failings. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Pure friendship is something which men of an inferior intellect can never taste. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends as to give them no cause to miss him less. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable. - Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life. - Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred. - Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
Tell me what company thou keepest and I’ll tell thee what thou art. Explain - Miguel de Cervantes Writer · Spain