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Quotes by Roman Authors
"He that becomes protector of sin shall surely become its prisoner."
"The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer."
"Now, my father Matthias was not only eminent on account of is nobility, but had a higher commendation on account of his righteousness, and was in great reputation in Jerusalem, the greatest city we have."
"The end of life puts the longest life on a par with the shortest."
"For my eightieth year warns me to pack up my baggage before I leave life."
"Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature."
"Social media is your platform to build a unique fan base while you express yourself exactly how you see yourself. Build wisely."
"That which has died falls not out of the universe. If it stays here, it also changes here, and is dissolved into its proper parts, which are elements of the universe and of thyself. And these too change, and they murmur not"."
"That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place."
"We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne."
"There are many going afar to marvel at the heights of mountains, the mighty waves of the sea, the long courses of great rivers, the vastness of the ocean, the movements of the stars, yet they leave themselves unnoticed!"
"True inner righteousness does not judge according to custom but by the measure of the most perfect law of God Almighty by which the mores of various places and times were adapted to those places and times."
"If you understood him, it would not be God."
"This is pride when the soul abandons Him to Whom it ought to cleave as its end and becomes a kind of end to itself. This happens when it becomes its own satisfaction."
"There seems to be a direct correlation between the spike in suicides by young people and the increase in cyberbullying amongst young people."
"All of us are creatures of a day; the rememberer and the remembered alike. All is ephemeral-both memory and the object of memory. The time is at hand when you will have forgotten everything; and the time is at hand when all will have forgotten you. Always reflect that soon you will be no one, and nowhere."
"As long as you live, keep learning how to live."
"That which is really beautiful has no need of anything; not more than law, not more than truth, not more than benevolence or modesty."
"Do external things distract you? Then make time for yourself to learn something worthwhile, stop letting yourself be pulled in all directions."
"The good man is neither uplifted with the good things of time, nor broken by its ills; but the wicked man, because he is corrupted by this world's happiness, feels himself punished by its unhappiness."
"Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool."
"Look well into thyself, there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look."
"The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious."
"When consent takes the form of seeking to possess the things we wish, this is called desire. When consent takes the form of enjoying the things we wish, this is called joy."
"The world is a book, and those who don't travel only read one page."
"But if you do not wish to die of thirst in the desert, drink charity. This is the fountain the Lord has willed to place here, lest we faint on the way, and we shall drink it more abundantly when we come to the Fatherland."
"To the divine providence it has seemed good to prepare in the world to come for the righteous good things, which the unrighteous shall not enjoy; and for the wicked evil things, by which the good shall not be tormented."
"The poor man is he who, having much, craves for more."
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