Quintilian

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Quotes

• Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Quintilian?

  • → The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
  • → Variety is the soul of pleasure.
  • → We love music for the buried hopes, the garnered memories, the tender feelings it can summon at a touch.
  • → A liar should have a good memory.
  
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• Pick the quote attributed to Quintilian.

  • → Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.
  • → It's not the drinking to be blamed, but the excess.
  • → Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.
  • → Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
  
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• Select the quotation attributed to Quintilian.

  • → Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.
  • → Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
  • → Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
  • → We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
  
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• One of these may be attributed to Quintilian. Which one?

  • → Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
  • → Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.
  • → We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
  • → To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
  
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• Which one of these belongs to Quintilian?

  • → Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.
  • → Idolatry is in a man’s own thought, not in the opinion of another.
  • → We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
  • → We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
  
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• Can you identify the right quote belonging to Quintilian?

  • → Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.
  • → Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.
  • → They that govern the most make the least noise.
  • → Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
  
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• Guess which of these quotes is attributed to Quintilian.

  • → Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.
  • → Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
  • → Tis not seasonable to call a man a traitor that has an army at his heels.
  • → Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
  
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• One of the following quotations belongs to Quintilian. Which one?

  • → The world cannot be governed without juggling.
  • → Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
  • → We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
  • → To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
  
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