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Quotes by Roman Authors
"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."
"It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult."
"Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body."
"The poor man is he who, having much, craves for more."
"There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it."
"The enemy fights the hardest when you are closest to your breakthrough. Know that your best days are ahead and no weapon formed will prosper."
"Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence."
"I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement."
"YOU ARE WHAT YOU TWEET!"
"If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable."
"No man is crushed by misfortune unless he has first been deceived by prosperity."
"For as the same fire causes gold to glow brightly, and chaff to smoke; and under the same flail the straw is beaten small, while the grain is cleansed; and as the lees are not mixed with the oil, though squeezed out of the vat by the same pressure, so the same violence of affliction proves, purges, clarifies the good, but damns, ruins, exterminates the wicked. And thus it is that in the same affliction the wicked detest God and blaspheme, while the good pray and praise."
"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."
"What pulls the strings is the force hidden within there lies ... the real man."
"Neither worse then nor better is a thing made by being praised."
"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."
"Here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not "This is misfortune," but "To bear this worthily is good fortune."
"Be true to who you are. Don't let the world tell you who to be."
"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."
"Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live."
"Be yourself....and make the world adjust!"
"A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant."
"You see it as me going back. I see it as me staying on track."
"Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for crisis."
"Things of themselves cannot touch the soul at all. They have no entry to the soul, and cannot turn or move it. The soul alone turns and moves itself, making all externals presented to it cohere with the judgements it thinks worthy of itself."
"It's not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds."
"All cruelty springs from weakness."
"Start today creating a vision for yourself, your life, and your career. Bounce back from adversity and create what you want, rebuild and rebrand. Tell yourself it's possible along the way, have patience, and maintain peace with yourself during the process."
"Never underestimate the power of a tweet."
"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."
"Fate rules the affairs of mankind with no recognizable order."
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