Quote #5
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
More from Marcus Fabius Quintilian
- Pectus est enim, quod disertos facit.
- 'We should not write so that it is possible for [the reader] to understand us, but so that it is impossible for him to misunderstand us.'
- Vain hopes are often like the dreams of those who wake.
- It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing.
- A liar should have a good memory.
- Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
- We give to necessity the praise of virtue.
- Damnant quod non intellegunt.