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Quotes by Roman Authors
"Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters."
"Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things."
"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end."
"He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe."
"He plants trees to benefit another generation."
"I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent."
"Let each man pass his days in that wherein his skill is greatest."
"It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it."
"It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life."
"Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today."
"Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder."
"The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust."
"Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent."
"Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly."
"Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment."
"Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly."
"The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach."
"The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury."
"There is no one, who possesses intelligence and uses reflection, who does not understand that it is one Being who both created all things and governs them with the same energy by which He created them."
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