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Quotes by Roman Authors
"O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!"
"We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality."
"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."
"Do external things distract you? Then make time for yourself to learn something worthwhile, stop letting yourself be pulled in all directions."
"Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else."
"Rather let the crime of the guilty go unpunished than condemn the innocent."
"The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder."
"So that he seemed to depart not from life, but from one home to another."
"When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill."
"Fas est ab hoste doceri.One should learn even from one's enemies."
"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."
"Indeed we also work, but we are only collaborating with God who works, for his mercy has gone before us. It has gone before us so that we may be healed, and follows us so that once healed, we may be given life; it goes before us so that we may be called, and follows us so that we may be glorified; it goes before us so that we may live devoutly, and follows us so that we may always live with God: for without him we can do nothing."
"Envy of other people shows how they are unhappy. Their continual attention to others behavior shows how they are boring."
"Any day above ground is a good day. Before you complain about anything, be thankful for your life and the things that are still going well."
"Look well into thyself, there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look."
"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."
"Think not so much of what you lack as of what you have: but of the things that you have, select the best, and then reflect on how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them."
"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking."
"Nobody but you have to believe in your dreams to make them a reality."
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