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."?