Talk:Quintilian

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• Non multa sed multum
  • Not many but much

• Or who do not fit words to things, but seek irrelevant things which their words may fit.
  • Suggested to have been attributed by Montaigne

• There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught

• Est quidem felicibus difficilis miseriarum vera aestimatio.
  • The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
  • Declamationes Maiores, IX, 6

• First well, then quickly.

Marcus Cato Reference

To which Cato does Quintilian refer in Book XII, Chapter i, 1 "Let the orator whom I propose to form, then, be such a one as is characterized by the definition of Marcus Cato, a good man skilled in speaking."?