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Quotes by Roman Authors
"For it is one thing to see the Land of Peace from a wooded ridge, and yet another to walk the road that leads to it."
"We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that."
"Do not feel surprise at being schooled amid toil: you are being schooled for a wondrous destiny."
"Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him."
"He that becomes protector of sin shall surely become its prisoner."
"Man himself is a great deep, whose very hairs Thou numberest, O Lord, and they fall not to the ground without Thee. And yet are the hairs of his head easier to be numbered than his feelings, and the beatings of his heart."
"If you aspire to the highest place it is no disgrace to stop at the second or even the third place."
"Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome."
"How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were always present and never moved on to become the past, it would not be time, but eternity."
"I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of wha. I do not know."
"Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise."
"Greed's worst point is its ingratitude."
"Custom is second nature."
"Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also."
"Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them."
"Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig."
"Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion."
"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?"
"You are a little soul carrying about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say."
"What is the proper limit for wealth? It is first to have what is necessary and second to have what is enough."
"For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives."
"It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin."
"No evil is without its compensation ... it is not the loss itself but the estimate of the loss that troubles us."
"We speak, but it is God who teaches."
"We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty."
"I don't consider myself bald, I'm just taller than my hair."
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