Quintilian

“A liar should have a good memory.”

“As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.”

“Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.”

“Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.”

“Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.”

“In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.”

“Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.”

“To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.”

“The perfection of art is to conceal art.”

“Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.”