Quintilian Quotes About Ambition

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Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Quintilian (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Quintilian (Illustrated)”, p.26, Delphi Classics

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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues. [Lat., Licet ipsa vitium sit ambitio, frequenter tamen causa virtutem est.]
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Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Give me the boy who rouses when he is praised, who profits when he is encouraged and who cries when he is defeated. Such a boy will be fired by ambition; he will be stung by reproach, and animated by preference; never shall I apprehend any bad consequences from idleness in such a boy.
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Quintilian (1805). “Quinctilian's Institutes of Eloquence: Or, The Art of Speaking in Public, in Every Character and Capacity”, p.26

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