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
