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Quotes by Roman Authors
"It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others."
"Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder."
"In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain."
"Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears."
"It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment."
"It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it."
"Silence is one of the great arts of conversation."
"Where there are friends there is wealth."
"Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly."
"We are born under circumstances that would be favorable if we did not abandon them. It was nature's intention that there should be no need of great equipment for a good life: every individual can make himself happy."
"There are more things, Lucilius, likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality."
"The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury."
"We can endure neither our vices nor the remedies for them."
"Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall."
"Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly."
"When you run up against someone else's shamelessness, ask yourself this: Is a world without shamelessness possible?No. Then don't ask the impossible. There have to be shameless people in the world. This is one of them. The same for someone vicious or untrustworthy, or with any other defect. Remembering that the whole world class has to exist will make you more tolerant of its members."
"If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable."
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