What did Quintilian mean by: Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned. - Quintilian Rhetorician · Spain Copy
+ 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
+ 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
+ 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
+ Usage is the best language teacher. Feraz Zeid, September 8, 2023December 24, 2023, Quintilian, Language, Teacher, 0 - Quintilian Rhetorician · Spain
+ It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory. Feraz Zeid, November 5, 2023December 26, 2023, Quintilian, Liars, Lying, Memories, 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
+ 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
+ Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming. Feraz Zeid, August 1, 2023December 12, 2023, Quintilian, Becoming, 0 - Quintilian Rhetorician · Spain
It is in vain to ridicule a rich fool, for the laughers will be on his side. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Every man is valued in this world as he shows by his conduct that he wishes to be valued. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
If you wish to be held in esteem, you must ssociate only with those who estimable. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
If men wish to be held in esteem, they must associate with those only who are estimable. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
We wish to constitute all the happiness, or, if that cannot be, the misery of the one we love. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Let fools the studious despise, There’s nothing lost by being wise. - Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
A philosopher is a fool who torments himself while he is alive, to be talked of after he is dead. - Jean le Rond d'Alembert Mathematician and physicist · France
