What did Quintilian mean by: Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest. - Quintilian Rhetorician · Spain Copy
+ 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
+ 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
+ It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Quintilian, Children, Nurse, 0 - Quintilian Rhetorician · Spain
+ While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do. Feraz Zeid, July 26, 2023December 12, 2023, Quintilian, Late, Too Late, 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
+ Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune. Feraz Zeid, October 11, 2023December 26, 2023, Quintilian, Fear, Fortune, 0 - Quintilian Rhetorician · Spain
+ Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures. [Lat., Continuis voluptatibus vicina satietas.] Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Quintilian, Neighbor, Pleasure, Satiety, 0 - Quintilian Rhetorician · Spain
+ That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Quintilian, Ears, Mind, 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
