What did Quintilian mean by: Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be. - 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
+ Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Quintilian, Effects, 0 - Quintilian Rhetorician · Spain
+ Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Quintilian, Desire, Pleasure, 0 - Quintilian Rhetorician · Spain
+ An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Quintilian, Evil, Opportunity, 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
+ While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Quintilian, Expected, 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 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
In middle age, I practiced feeling old, but the real thing has been a rude surprise. - Mason Cooley Professor · USA
Peaceful and kind one monk is more valuable than violent and rude ten thousand men! - Mehmet Murat Ildan Playwright and novelist · Turkey
Says the rude child: “No, I won’t do it.” Says the courteous grown-up: “Yes, I won’t do it. - Mignon McLaughlin Writer
It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme. - William Cowper Poet · England