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Quotes by Roman Authors
"The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury."
"There is no one, who possesses intelligence and uses reflection, who does not understand that it is one Being who both created all things and governs them with the same energy by which He created them."
"Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall."
"Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly."
"Let each man pass his days in that wherein his skill is greatest."
"Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt."
"We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide."
"Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears."
"If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable."
"I criticize by creation - not by finding fault."
"In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty."
"Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly."
"It is not every question that deserves an answer."
"The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?"
"It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment."
"Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder."
"Which death is preferably to every other? "The unexpected"."
"Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy."
"The courage of a soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession."
"The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin."
"The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts."
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