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Quotes by Roman Authors
"I have learned to be a friend to myself Great improvement this indeed Such a one can never be said to be alone for know that he who is a friend to himself is a friend to all mankind."
"Reflect that nothing merits admiration except thespirit, the impressiveness of which prevents it from being impressed by anything."
"No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration."
"God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech."
"The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile endure awhile believe always and never turn back."
"A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature."
"I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments."
"In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me."
"While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. the opportunity is lost."
"The prophets, who were very many, proclaim and declare the one God; for, being filled with the inspiration of the one God, they predicted things to come, with agreeing and harmonious voice."
"Courage leads starward fear toward death."
"There's some end at last for the man who follows a path mere rambling is interminable."
"Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled."
"The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable."
"Once for all, then, a short precept is given thee: Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy peace; whether thou cry out, through love cry out; whether thou correct, through love correct; whether thou spare, through love do thou spare: let the root of love be within, of this root can nothing spring but what is good."
"Hence, you see your faith, you see your doubt, you see your desire and will to learn, and when you are induced by divine authority to believe what you do not see, you see at one that you believe these things; you analyze and discern all this."
"The sun shines even on the wicked."
"Grant us a brief delay; impulse in everything is but a worthless servant."
"As you become more present in your own life, you will begin to enlighten others by your example."
"Everything that has a beginning comes to an end."
"The deformity of Christ forms you. If he had not willed to be deformed, you would not have recovered the form which you had lost. Therefore he was deformed when he hung on the cross. But his deformity is our comeliness. In this life, therefore, let us hold fast to the deformed Christ."
"Therefore, if the gods are immortal and eternal, what need is there of the other sex, when they themselves do not require succession, since they are always about to exist?"
"The sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment."
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