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Quotes by Roman Authors
"The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity."
"Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship."
"Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be."
"There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage."
"When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff."
"Anyone who is an enemy of mine, let him love women, but let he who is my friend rejoice in men."
"When the vision is clear, the results will appear. Keep your mindset positive as you work your plan, flourish, and always remember why you started."
"The world is a book, and those who don't travel only read one page."
"From the philosopher Catulus, never to be dismissive of a friend's accusation, even if it seems unreasonable, but to make every effort to restore the relationship to its normal condition."
"If you have understood, then what you have understood is not God."
"You are not blamed for your unwilling ignorance, but because you fail to ask about what you do not know.... For no one is prevented from leaving behind the disadvantage of ignorance and seeking the advantage of knowledge."
"To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions."
"If you wished to be loved, love."
"The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance. The mind commands the hand to move, and it so easy that one hardly distinguishes the order from its execution. Yet mind is mind and hand is body. The mind orders the mind to will. The recipient of the order is itself, yet it does not perform it."
"Oh what times! Oh what standards!"
"Man's best support is a very dear friend."
"What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing-to live in accord with his own nature."
"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."
"There is no enjoying the possession of anything valuable unless one has someone to share it with."
"No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill."
"Love never offers to anyone wings so easy that he does not hold him back with his other hand."
"Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for no wind is the right wind."
"Homer was able to give us no information relating to the truth, for he wrote of human rather than divine things."
"Fortune reveres the brave and overwhelms the cowardly."
"There is nothing so bitter that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it."
"If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it."
"There could be nothing more fortunate for human affairs than that by the mercy of God they who are endowed with true piety of life if they have the skill for ruling people should also have the power."
"The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory."
"If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it."
"I shall always be consistent and never change my ways so long as I am in my senses; but for the sake of precedent the Senate should beware of binding itself to support the acts of any man, since he might through some mischance suffer a change."
"Every day my conscience makes confession relying on the hope of Your mercy as more to be trusted than its own innocence."
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