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Quotes by Roman Authors

"The search for religion is the starting point of thought."
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Xu Zhimo
"The search for religion is the starting point of thought."
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"Love is a kind of warfare."
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Ovid
"Love is a kind of warfare."
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"Focus on your work. Do what you're great at. Don't compare yourself to others and or waste time criticizing the lives and work of others. Do what matters most to you and make a difference doing that."
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Germany Kent
"Focus on your work. Do what you're great at. Don't compare yourself to others and or waste time criticizing the lives and work of others. Do what matters most to you and make a difference doing that."
"It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing."
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Seneca
"It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing."
"We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others."
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Horace
"We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others."
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"Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place."
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Saint Augustine
"Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place."
"To say nothing is saying something. You must denounce things you are against or one might believe that you support things you really do not."
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Germany Kent
"To say nothing is saying something. You must denounce things you are against or one might believe that you support things you really do not."
"Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise."
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Marcus Aurelius
"Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise."
"Empire and liberty."
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Empire and liberty."
"The bigger the victory, the bigger the battle. Still, be the light and a change agent for healing, restoration and transformation."
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Germany Kent
"The bigger the victory, the bigger the battle. Still, be the light and a change agent for healing, restoration and transformation."
"Preparation time is necessary for your growth. Trust and believe everything you're going through is preparing you for some request you put out into the Universe."
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Germany Kent
"Preparation time is necessary for your growth. Trust and believe everything you're going through is preparing you for some request you put out into the Universe."
"For Fate/ The willing leads, the unwilling drags along."
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Seneca
"For Fate/ The willing leads, the unwilling drags along."
"Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself."
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Horace
"Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself."
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"Le bonheur, c'est continuer à désirer ce que l'on a déjà."
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Saint Augustine
"Le bonheur, c'est continuer à désirer ce que l'on a déjà."
"Love is full of anxious fears."
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Ovid
"Love is full of anxious fears."
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"Let the Lord your God be your hope " seek for nothing else from him, but let him himself be your hope. There are people who hope from him riches or perishable and transitory honours, in short they hope to get from God things which are not God himself."
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Saint Augustine
"Let the Lord your God be your hope " seek for nothing else from him, but let him himself be your hope. There are people who hope from him riches or perishable and transitory honours, in short they hope to get from God things which are not God himself."
"Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight."
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Marcus Aurelius
"Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight."
"Today if anything is trying to hold you back, give no attention to it. Get your hopes up, get your faith up, look up, and get ready to rise up."
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Germany Kent
"Today if anything is trying to hold you back, give no attention to it. Get your hopes up, get your faith up, look up, and get ready to rise up."
"First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe," three times."
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Ovid
"First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe," three times."
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"The things you think about determine the quality of your mind."
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Marcus Aurelius
"The things you think about determine the quality of your mind."
"Timendi causa est nescire - Ignorance is the cause of fear."
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Seneca
"Timendi causa est nescire - Ignorance is the cause of fear."
"Anger is a short madness."
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Horace
"Anger is a short madness."
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"The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home."
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Saint Augustine
"The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home."
"Strive to be a person of action, good deeds and a willing vessel of hope."
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Germany Kent
"Strive to be a person of action, good deeds and a willing vessel of hope."
"A great step toward independence is a good-humoured stomach."
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Seneca
"A great step toward independence is a good-humoured stomach."
"Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear."
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Ovid
"Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear."
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"Is any man skillful enough to have fashioned himself?"
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Saint Augustine
"Is any man skillful enough to have fashioned himself?"
"I know that these mental disturbances of mine are not dangerous and give no promise of a storm; to express what I complain of in apt metaphor, I am distressed, not by a tempest, but by sea-sickness."
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Seneca
"I know that these mental disturbances of mine are not dangerous and give no promise of a storm; to express what I complain of in apt metaphor, I am distressed, not by a tempest, but by sea-sickness."
"How good it is, when you have roast meat or suchlike foods before you, to impress on your mind that this is the dead body of a fish, this the dead body of a bird or pig."
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Marcus Aurelius
"How good it is, when you have roast meat or suchlike foods before you, to impress on your mind that this is the dead body of a fish, this the dead body of a bird or pig."
"Give yourself permission 2 evolve. Become a philosopher, come up with your own interpretation of life and stop accepting someone else's as your truth."
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Germany Kent
"Give yourself permission 2 evolve. Become a philosopher, come up with your own interpretation of life and stop accepting someone else's as your truth."
"As far as you can, get into the habit of asking yourself in relation to any action taken by another: "What is his point of reference here?" But begin with yourself: examine yourself first."
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Marcus Aurelius
"As far as you can, get into the habit of asking yourself in relation to any action taken by another: "What is his point of reference here?" But begin with yourself: examine yourself first."
"Snow endures but for a season and joy comes with the morning."
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Marcus Aurelius
"Snow endures but for a season and joy comes with the morning."
"Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be."
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Marcus Aurelius
"Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be."
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"He whom all hate all wish to see destroyed."
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Ovid
"He whom all hate all wish to see destroyed."
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"Indeed, the only cause of their [Rome] perishing was that they chose for their protectors gods condemned to perish."
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Saint Augustine
"Indeed, the only cause of their [Rome] perishing was that they chose for their protectors gods condemned to perish."
"The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away."
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Marcus Aurelius
"The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away."
"The liberal arts do not conduct the soul all the way to virtue, but merely set it going in that direction."
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Seneca
"The liberal arts do not conduct the soul all the way to virtue, but merely set it going in that direction."
"Speak Life:You are loved.You have purpose.You are a masterpiece.You are wonderfully made.God has a great plan for you."
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Germany Kent
"Speak Life:You are loved.You have purpose.You are a masterpiece.You are wonderfully made.God has a great plan for you."
"Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?"
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Marcus Aurelius
"Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?"
"I fell away from you, my God, and I went astray, too far astray from you, the support of my youth, and I became to myself a land of want."
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Saint Augustine
"I fell away from you, my God, and I went astray, too far astray from you, the support of my youth, and I became to myself a land of want."
"Lavish spending cloaks the dark side of generosity."
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Saint Augustine
"Lavish spending cloaks the dark side of generosity."
"No more roundabout discussions of what makes a good man. Be one!"
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Marcus Aurelius
"No more roundabout discussions of what makes a good man. Be one!"
"Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig."
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Marcus Aurelius
"Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig."
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"Thank God for allowing you to see another day. No matter what, keep trusting, keep believing, be strong, have hope. The best is yet to come."
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Germany Kent
"Thank God for allowing you to see another day. No matter what, keep trusting, keep believing, be strong, have hope. The best is yet to come."
"Do not be ashamed of help."
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Marcus Aurelius
"Do not be ashamed of help."
"If you never try, you'll never know. You are what you manifest."
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Germany Kent
"If you never try, you'll never know. You are what you manifest."
"No matter how many men you kill, you can't kill your successor."
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Seneca
"No matter how many men you kill, you can't kill your successor."
"And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last."
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Marcus Aurelius
"And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last."
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"This, then, is true liberty: the joy that comes in doing what is right. At the same time, it is also devoted service in obedience to righteous precept."
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Saint Augustine
"This, then, is true liberty: the joy that comes in doing what is right. At the same time, it is also devoted service in obedience to righteous precept."
"How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks."
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Marcus Aurelius
"How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks."
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