What did Quintilian mean by: That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind. - Quintilian Rhetorician · Spain Copy
+ For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set. Feraz Zeid, June 5, 2023December 12, 2023, Quintilian, Mind, Teach, 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
+ 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
+ Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming. Feraz Zeid, August 1, 2023December 12, 2023, Quintilian, Becoming, 0 - Quintilian Rhetorician · Spain
+ It is the heart which inspires eloquence. Feraz Zeid, October 9, 2023December 26, 2023, Quintilian, Eloquence, Heart, Inspiration, 0 - Quintilian Rhetorician · Spain
+ When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield. Feraz Zeid, October 31, 2023December 26, 2023, Quintilian, Advantage, Winning, Yield, 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
+ There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Quintilian, Pride, 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
Life at court does not satisfy a man, but it keeps him from being satisfied with anything else. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain. - Jean de La Fontaine Poet · 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
