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Quotes by Roman Authors
"He cannot have God for his Father who will not have the Church for his mother."
"O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics - Unless I am down with rheumatics."
"If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed."
"Oh, what darkness does great prosperity cast over our minds!"
"Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished."
"To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination."
"He hath freedom whoso beareth clean and constant heart within."
"There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it."
"No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill."
"Such is the strength of the burden of habit. Here I have the power to be but do not wish it. There I wish to be but lacks the power. On both grounds, I'm in misery."
"Therefore God is one, if that which admits of so great power can be nothing else: and yet those who deem that there are many gods, say that they have divided their functions among themselves; but we will discuss all these matters at their proper places."
"Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake."
"If you're not grateful for what you already have, why should you be blessed with more..."
"Here is he laid to whom for daring deed, nor friend nor foe could render worthy meed."
"A man's happiness: to do the things proper to man."
"Rather let the crime of the guilty go unpunished than condemn the innocent."
"What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us."
"Hateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be feared rather than loved."
"Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?"
"If you have understood, then what you have understood is not God."
"Pain is slight if opinion has added nothing to it; ... in thinking it slight, you will make it slight. Everything depends on opinion. It is according to opinion that we suffer. A man is as wretched as he has convinced himself that he is."
"We all have a responsibility with the words we post on the internet. If you wouldn't want your mother, daughter, sister or friend to read it, don't post it."
"To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions."
"What should you, O man, do, you who seek your own glory whenever you do anything good, while when you do something bad, you figure out ways to blame God."
"Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers."
"There is no sin unless through a man's own will, and hence the reward when we do right things also of our own."
"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."
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