Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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[721:1] Ne supra crepidam sutor judicaret (Let not a shoemaker judge above his shoe).

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QUINTILIAN.  42-118 a. d.

We give to necessity the praise of virtue.[721:2]

Institutiones Oratoriæ, i. 8, 14.

A liar should have a good memory.[721:3]

Institutiones Oratoriæ, iv. 2, 91.

Vain hopes are often like the dreams of those who wake.[721:4]

Institutiones Oratoriæ, vi. 2, 30.

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.[721:5]