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Quotes by Roman Authors

"Custom adapts itself to expediency."
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Tacitus
"Custom adapts itself to expediency."
"Speech is the mirror of the soul."
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Publilius Syrus
"Speech is the mirror of the soul."
"As you become more present in your own life, you will begin to enlighten others by your example."
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Germany Kent
"As you become more present in your own life, you will begin to enlighten others by your example."
"We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty."
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Marcus Fabius Quintilian
"We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty."
"The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness."
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Ovid
"The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness."
"Don't hang out with people who are: Ungrateful, Unhelpful, Unruly, Unkindly, Unloving, Unambitious, Unmotivated or make you feel...Uncomfortable."
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Germany Kent
"Don't hang out with people who are: Ungrateful, Unhelpful, Unruly, Unkindly, Unloving, Unambitious, Unmotivated or make you feel...Uncomfortable."
"When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill."
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Seneca
"When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill."
"I don't consider myself bald, I'm just taller than my hair."
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Seneca
"I don't consider myself bald, I'm just taller than my hair."
"Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up."
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Terence
"Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up."
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"We must make haste then, not only because we are daily nearer to death, but also because the conception of things and the understanding of them cease first."
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Marcus Aurelius
"We must make haste then, not only because we are daily nearer to death, but also because the conception of things and the understanding of them cease first."
"Instead of hating someone, pray for that person. Don't forget to pray for yourself as well, that you may learn how to let go and forgive."
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Germany Kent
"Instead of hating someone, pray for that person. Don't forget to pray for yourself as well, that you may learn how to let go and forgive."
"Give up your thirst for books, so that you do not die a grouch."
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Marcus Aurelius
"Give up your thirst for books, so that you do not die a grouch."
"Be around people that make you want to be a better person, who make you feel good, make you laugh, and remind you what's important in life."
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Germany Kent
"Be around people that make you want to be a better person, who make you feel good, make you laugh, and remind you what's important in life."
"Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome."
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Titus Maccius Plautus
"Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome."
"Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts."
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Marcus Aurelius
"Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts."
"Swiftly the remembrance of all things is buried in the gulf of eternity."
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Marcus Aurelius
"Swiftly the remembrance of all things is buried in the gulf of eternity."
"Success consecrates the most offensive crimes."
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Seneca
"Success consecrates the most offensive crimes."
"In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible."
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
"In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible."
"You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can't control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone."
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Marcus Aurelius
"You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can't control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone."
"Truth is the daughter of time."
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Aulus Gellius
"Truth is the daughter of time."
"It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted."
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Titus Livius
"It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted."
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"Don't settle for living mediocre. Focus on all the positive and embrace it. Ignore the negative and be thankful for every single day."
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Germany Kent
"Don't settle for living mediocre. Focus on all the positive and embrace it. Ignore the negative and be thankful for every single day."
"You're a wise person if you can easily direct your attention to what ever needs it."
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Terence
"You're a wise person if you can easily direct your attention to what ever needs it."
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"Your strength doesn't come from winning. It comes from struggles and hardship. Everything that you go through prepares you for the next level."
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Germany Kent
"Your strength doesn't come from winning. It comes from struggles and hardship. Everything that you go through prepares you for the next level."
"With God, there's always an appointed time for things, and when you put Him first, trust in His timing, and keep the faith, miracles happen!"
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Germany Kent
"With God, there's always an appointed time for things, and when you put Him first, trust in His timing, and keep the faith, miracles happen!"
"Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by."
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Ovid
"Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by."
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"If the gods have determined about me and about the things which must happen to me, they have determined well, for it is not easy even to imagine a deity without forethought; and as to doing me harm, why should they have any desire towards that? For what advantage would result to them from this or to the whole, which is the special object of their providence? But if they have not determined about me individually, they have certainly determined about the whole at least, and the things which happen by way of sequence in this general arrangement I ought to accept with pleasure and to be content with them."
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Marcus Aurelius
"If the gods have determined about me and about the things which must happen to me, they have determined well, for it is not easy even to imagine a deity without forethought; and as to doing me harm, why should they have any desire towards that? For what advantage would result to them from this or to the whole, which is the special object of their providence? But if they have not determined about me individually, they have certainly determined about the whole at least, and the things which happen by way of sequence in this general arrangement I ought to accept with pleasure and to be content with them."
"The remedy for wrongs is to forget them."
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Publilius Syrus
"The remedy for wrongs is to forget them."
"The humble are in danger when those in power disagree."
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Phaedrus
"The humble are in danger when those in power disagree."
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"Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you."
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Phaedrus
"Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you."
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"Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence."
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Titus Livius
"Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence."
"The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living."
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
"The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living."
"We die as often as we lose a friend."
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Publilius Syrus
"We die as often as we lose a friend."
"Love never offers to anyone wings so easy that he does not hold him back with his other hand."
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Sextus Propertius
"Love never offers to anyone wings so easy that he does not hold him back with his other hand."
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"Rare is the union of beauty and purity."
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Juvenal
"Rare is the union of beauty and purity."
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"There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality."
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Seneca
"There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality."
"Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes."
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Titus Livius
"Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes."
"All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident."
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Titus Livius
"All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident."
"Love in its essence is spiritual fire."
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Seneca
"Love in its essence is spiritual fire."
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"Afflicted by love's madness all are blind."
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Sextus Propertius
"Afflicted by love's madness all are blind."
"Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men."
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Quintus Ennius
"Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men."
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"Avoid any specific discussion of public policy at public meetings."
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Quintus Tullius Cicero
"Avoid any specific discussion of public policy at public meetings."
"The master's eye is the best fertilizer."
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Gaius Plinius Secondus
"The master's eye is the best fertilizer."
Eye,
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"Nature made the fields and man the cities."
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Marcus Terentius Varro
"Nature made the fields and man the cities."
"While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. the opportunity is lost."
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Marcus Fabius Quintilian
"While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. the opportunity is lost."
"The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life."
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Lucan
"The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life."
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"But God, who is the Eternal Mind, is undoubtedly of excellence, complete and perfect in every part."
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Lactantius
"But God, who is the Eternal Mind, is undoubtedly of excellence, complete and perfect in every part."
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"The evil that we know is best."
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Titus Maccius Plautus
"The evil that we know is best."
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"Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense."
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Phaedrus
"Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense."
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"The bow kept taut will quickly break, kept loosely strung, it will serve you when you need it."
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Phaedrus
"The bow kept taut will quickly break, kept loosely strung, it will serve you when you need it."
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