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Quotes by Roman Authors
"Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?"
"Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things."
"How sweet all at once it was for me to be rid of those fruitless joys which I had once feared to lose..! You drove them from me, you who are the true, the sovereign joy. You drove them from me and took their place.... O Lord my God, my Light, my Wealth, and my Salvation."
"Power up your intelligence. Hit that creativity button."
"The world you see, nature's greatest and most glorious creation, and the human mind which gazes and wonders at it, and is the most splendid part of it, these are our own everlasting possessions and will remain with us as long as we ourselves remain. So, eager and upright, let us hasten with bold steps wherever circumstances take us, and let us journey through any countries whatever: there can be no place of exile within the world since nothing within the world is alien to men."
"It is in your power to withdraw yourself whenever you desire. Perfect tranquility within consists in the good ordering of the mind, the realm of your own."
"Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature."
"Everyday presents a new opportunity to grow and press forward to your success. Stay the course believing that where you are right now doesn't matter, as long as you are moving in the right direction."
"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."
"Social Media begins with a story - your story."
"As long as you live, keep learning how to live."
"Never give up hope. All things are working for your good. One day, you'll look back on everything you've been through and thank God for it."
"You should always be ready to apply these two rules of action, the first, to do nothing other than what the kingly and law-making art ordains for the benefits of humankind, and, the second, to be prepared to change your mind if someone is at hand to put you right and guide you away from some groundless opinion."
"Convince yourself everyday that you are worthy of a good life. Let go of stress, breathe. Stay positive, all is well."
"A man's life is what his thoughts make it."
"If you are on social media, and you are not learning, not laughing, not being inspired or not networking, then you are using it wrong."
"Reason shows us there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so."
"It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland."
"Twitter is a vessel that we can use to share #positivity to others through our timeline one tweet at a time."
"Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not."
"Don't promote negativity online and expect people to treat you with positivity in person."
"I am no more than a child, but my Father lives for ever and I have a Protector great enough to save me."
"When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined branches, do not the stately shadows of the wood, the stillness of the place, and the awful gloom of this doomed cavern then strike you with the presence of a deity?"
"Vice can be learnt even without a teacher."
"My soul is like a house, small for you to enter, but I pray you to enlarge it. It is in ruins, but I ask you to remake it. It contains much that you will not be pleased to see: this I know and do not hide. But who is to rid it of these things? There is no one but you."
"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."
"We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her."
"Regain your senses, call yourself back, and once again wake up. Now that you realize that only dreams were troubling you, view this 'reality' as you view your dreams."
"Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life."
"When success is your only option, positivity has to be your only choice."
"Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones."
"I am not a 'wise man,' nor . . . shall I ever be. And so require not from me that I should be equal to the best, but that I should be better than the wicked. It is enough for me if every day I reduce the number of my vices, and blame my mistakes."
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