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Quotes by Roman Authors
"Distance yourself from people who: 1. Disrespect you 2. Mistreat others 3. Are abusive 4. Lie to you 5. Are negative 6. Have no goals 7. Use you 8. Put you down."
"Man is a social animal."
"Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled."
"It is the part of a fool to say, I should not have thought."
"There is too much negativity in the world. Do your best to make sure you aren't contributing to it."
"To live is shared by all, but not to be worthy of living."
"Hit the reset button. Whatever happened yesterday, forget about it. Get a new perspective. Today is a new day. Fresh start, begins now."
"If you would wish another to keep your secret first keep it yourself."
"If something is difficult for you to accomplish, do not then think it impossible for any human being; rather, if it is humanly possible and corresponds to human nature, know that it is attainable by you as well."
"Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life."
"Speak with caution. Even if someone forgives harsh words you've spoken, they may be too hurt to ever forget them. Don't leave a legacy of pain and regret of things you never should have said."
"Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish."
"Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has in it something for every age to investigate."
"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others."
"It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin."
"What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye."
"Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one."
"The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing."
"What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?"
"So you must not think a man has lived long because he has white hair and wrinkles: he has not lived long, just existed long. For suppose you should think that a man had had a long voyage who had been caught in a raging storm as he left harbour, and carried hither and thither and driven round and round in a circle by the rage opposing winds. He did not have a long voyage, just a long tossing about."
"The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice."
"The shortest route to wealth is the contempt of wealth."
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