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Quotes by Roman Authors
"Let us cherish and love old age; for it is full of pleasure if one knows how to use it. Fruits are most welcome when almost over; youth is most charming at its close; the last drink delights the toper, the glass which souses him and puts the finishing touch on his drunkenness. Each pleasure reserves to the end the greatest delights which it contains. Life is most delightful when it is on the downward slope, but has not yet reached the abrupt decline."
"I am no more than a child, but my Father lives for ever and I have a Protector great enough to save me."
"Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough."
"When I think over what I have said I envy dumb people."
"Vice can be learnt even without a teacher."
"If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it."
"So long, in fact, as you remain in ignorance of what to aim at and what to avoid, what is essential and what is superfluous, what is upright or honorable conduct and what is not, it will not be travelling but drifting. All this hurrying from place to place won't bring you any relief, for you're travelling in the company of your own emotions, followed by your troubles all the way."
"The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it."
"Every visible thing in this world is put in the charge of an Angel."
"It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable."
"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."
"It is a ridiculous thing for a man not to fly from his own badness, which is indeed possible, but to fly from other men's badness, which is impossible."
"Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men."
"People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas,at the long course of the rivers,at the vast compass of the ocean,at the circular motion of the stars,and yet they pass by themselves without wondering."
"You shall be told what pleased me to-day in the writings ofHecato; it is these words: "What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself." That wasindeed a great benefit; such a person can never be alone. You may be sure that such a man is a friend to all mankind."
"Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body."
"Narrow is the mansion of my soul; enlarge Thou it, that Thou mayest enter in. It is ruinous; repair Thou it. It has that within which must offend Thine eyes; I confess and know it. But who shall cleanse it? or to whom should I cry, save Thee? Lord, cleanse me from my secret faults, and spare Thy servant from the power of the enemy. I believe, and therefore do I speak."
"There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it."
"It is more civilized to make fun of life than to bewail it."
"Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable."
"YOU ARE WHAT YOU TWEET!"
"Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either."
"Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft."
"A guilty person sometimes has the luck to escape detection, but never to feel sure of it."
"Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live."
"At the end of the day, we all live in this world together and to practice bringing peace onto social media is a huge step into bringing peace into our world."
"Be positive. Stay happy and don't let the negativity of the world get you down."
"Life is divided into three parts: what was, what is and what shall be. Of these three periods, the present is short, the future is doubtful and the past alone is certain."
"When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love."
"The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty."
"It takes all of our life to learn how to live, and " something that may surprise you more " it takes just as long to learn how to die."
"Somewhere, somebody is looking for someone exactly like you."
"If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable."
"Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid."
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