Quotes of Quintilian

Quintilian

Quintilian (Marcus Fabius Quintilianus) lived in the years 35-95 CE. Roman rhetorician and educator in pronunciation theory. First publicly paid rhetoric teacher.

• “Things which are now old, were once new”
  • latin: [Quae vetera nunc sunt, fuerunt olim nova]
  • source: Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, VIII, 3, 34
• “Where your friends are, there is your treasure”
  • latin: [Ubi amici, ibi opes]
  • source: Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, V, 40
• “A liar should have a good memory”
  • latin: [Mendacem oportet esse memorem]
  • source: Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, IV.2.91
• “To teach, to delight, to move”
  • latin: [Docere, delectare, movere]
  • source: Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 10, 59
• “Memory has been called the treasure-house of eloquence”
  • latin: [(Memoria) neque inmerito thesaurus hic eloquentiae dicitur]
  • source: Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria XI.2.2
• “They condemn what they do not understand”
  • latin: [Damnant quod non intellegunt]
  • source: Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria X, 1, 26
• “Your conscience is a thousand witnesses”
  • latin: [Conscientia mille testes]
  • source: Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria V.11.41

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