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Quotes by Roman Authors
"For every man, however laudably he lives, yet yields in some points to the lust of the flesh."
"For out of the perverse will came lust, and the service of lust ended in habit, and habit, not resisted, became necessity."
"The wounds of love can only be healed by the one who made them."
"Whoever, then, thinks that he understands the Holy Scriptures, or any part of them, but puts such an interpretation upon them as does not tend to build up this twofold love of God and our neighbor, does not yet understand them as he ought."
"Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war."
"The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true."
"Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's wall is ablaze."
"The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct."
"In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me."
"Envy of other people shows how they are unhappy. Their continual attention to others behavior shows how they are boring."
"The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder."
"Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them."
"Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion."
"I probably felt more resentment for what I personally was to suffer than for the wrong they were doing to anyone and everyone. But at that time I was determined not to put up with badly behaved people more out of my own interest than because I wanted them to become good people."
"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."
"He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing."
"As Lucretius says: 'Thus ever from himself doth each man flee.' But what does he gain if he does not escape from himself? He ever follows himself and weighs upon himself as his own most burdensome companion. And so we ought to understand that what we struggle with is the fault, not of the places, but of ourselves."
"If all emotions are common coin, then what is unique to the good man?To welcome with affection what is sent by fate. Not to stain or disturb the spirit within him with a mess of false beliefs. Instead, to preserve it faithfully, by calmly obeying God " saying nothing untrue, doing nothing unjust. And if the others don't acknowledge it " this life lived in simplicity, humility, cheerfulness " he doesn't resent them for it, and isn't deterred from following the road where it leads: to the end of life. An end to be approached in purity, in serenity, in acceptance, in peaceful unity with what must be."
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