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Quotes by Roman Authors

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Swiftly the remembrance of all things is buried in the gulf of eternity."

"Success consecrates the most offensive crimes."

"It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted."

"Don't settle for living mediocre. Focus on all the positive and embrace it. Ignore the negative and be thankful for every single day."

"Your strength doesn't come from winning. It comes from struggles and hardship. Everything that you go through prepares you for the next level."

"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."

"Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence."

"Love never offers to anyone wings so easy that he does not hold him back with his other hand."

"Avoid any specific discussion of public policy at public meetings."

"While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. the opportunity is lost."

"But God, who is the Eternal Mind, is undoubtedly of excellence, complete and perfect in every part."
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