top of page
.png){kind=small}
Quotes by Roman Authors
"If you're struggling today, remember that life is worth living and believe that the best is yet to come. Remember that you are loved, you matter, and never forget that there is always hope."
"The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body."
"Often the contempt of vainglory becomes a source of even more vainglory, for it is not being scorned when the contempt is something one is proud of."
"At the very moment when people underestimate you is when you can make a breakthrough."
"Philosophers have come to envy the philologist and the mathematician, and they have taken over all the inessential elements in those studies-with the result that they know more about devoting care and attention to their speech than about devoting such attention to their lives."
"You have the power to strip away many superfluous troubles located wholly in your judgement, and to possess a large room for yourself embracing in thought the whole cosmos, to consider everlasting time, to think of the rapid change in the parts of each thing, of how short it is from birth until dissolution, and how the void before birth and that after dissolution are equally infinite."
"And in the case of superior things like stars, we discover a kind of unity in separation. The higher we rise on the scale of being, the easier it is to discern a connection even among things separated by vast distances."
"This disease of curiosity."
"No man is crushed by misfortune unless he has first been deceived by prosperity."
"Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well ordered mind than a man's ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company."
"Oh! that I might repose on Thee! Oh! that Thou wouldest enter into my heart, inebriate it, that I may forget my ills, and embrace Thee, my sole good?"
"Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down."
"If you are surprised at the number of our maladies count our cooks."
"Indulge the body just so far as suffices for good health. It needs to be treated somewhat strictly to prevent it from being disobedient to the spirit. Your food should appease your hunger, your drink quench your thirst, your clothing keep out the cold, your house be a protection against inclement weather."
"You're going to make it;You're going to be at peace;You're going to create, and love, and laugh, and live;You're going to do great things."
"Happiness is achieved when you stop waiting for your life to begin and start making the most of the moment you are in."
"That all is as thinking makes it so " and you control your thinking. So remove your judgements whenever you wish and then there is calm - as the sailor rounding the cape finds smooth water and the welcome of a waveless bay."
"This is the chief thing: be not perturbed for all things are according to the nature of the universal."
"Your breakthrough is on the way. Don't be discouraged if things are not working out right now. God is working it all out behind the scenes. It may not come when you want, but trust that it will be right on time, because our God is an on time God."
"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking."
"Be true to who you are. Don't let the world tell you who to be."
"A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts."
"Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so."
"Thus, every entity, even if it is a defective one, in so far as it is an entity, is good. In so far as it is defective, it is evil."
"A man should always have these two rules in readiness. First, to do only what the reason of your ruling and legislating faculties suggest for the service of man. Second, to change your opinion whenever anyone at hand sets you right and unsettles you in an opinion, but this change of opinion should come only because you are persuaded that something is just or to the public advantage, not because it appears pleasant or increases your reputation."
"Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live."
"I inquired what wickedness is, and I didn't find a substance, but a perversity of will twisted away from the highest substance " You oh God " towards inferior things, rejecting its own inner life and swelling with external matter."
"If you look on wealth as a thing to be valued your imaginary poverty will cause you torment."
"And so there is no reason for you to think that any man has lived long because he has grey hairs or wrinkles, he has not lived long " he has existed long. For what if you should think that man had had a long voyage who had been caught by a fierce storm as soon as he left harbour, and, swept hither and thither by a succession of winds that raged from different quarters, had been driven in a circle around the same course? Not much voyaging did he have, but much tossing about."
"Be yourself....and make the world adjust!"
"To live each day as though one's last never flustered never apathetic never attitudinizing-here is perfection of character."
"Lord Jesus, don't let me lie when I say that I love you...and protect me, for today I could betray you."
bottom of page