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Quotes by Roman Authors

"The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late."
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Ovid
"The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late."
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"Don't promote negativity online and expect people to treat you with positivity in person."
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Germany Kent
"Don't promote negativity online and expect people to treat you with positivity in person."
"Living in peace has transformative power!"
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Germany Kent
"Living in peace has transformative power!"
"Your mind will take on the character of your most frequent thoughts: souls are dyed by thoughts."
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Marcus Aurelius
"Your mind will take on the character of your most frequent thoughts: souls are dyed by thoughts."
"Praise does not make anything better or worse."
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Marcus Aurelius
"Praise does not make anything better or worse."
"Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with."
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Ovid
"Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with."
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"To them that ask where have you seen the Gods or how do you know for certain there are Gods that you are so devout in their worship? I answer: Neither have I ever seen my own soul and yet I respect and honor it."
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Marcus Aurelius
"To them that ask where have you seen the Gods or how do you know for certain there are Gods that you are so devout in their worship? I answer: Neither have I ever seen my own soul and yet I respect and honor it."
"It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it."
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Seneca
"It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it."
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"We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us."
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Ovid
"We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us."
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"There's nothing more insufferable than people who boast about their own humility."
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Marcus Aurelius
"There's nothing more insufferable than people who boast about their own humility."
"Take time daily to reflect on how much you have. It may not be all that you want but remember someone somewhere is dreaming of what you own."
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Germany Kent
"Take time daily to reflect on how much you have. It may not be all that you want but remember someone somewhere is dreaming of what you own."
"Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life."
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Marcus Aurelius
"Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life."
"Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends."
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends."
"Gratitude is one of the most powerful human emotions. Once expressed, it changes attitude, brightens outlook, and broadens our perspective."
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Germany Kent
"Gratitude is one of the most powerful human emotions. Once expressed, it changes attitude, brightens outlook, and broadens our perspective."
"When God is ready for you to move, He will make your situation uncomfortable."
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Germany Kent
"When God is ready for you to move, He will make your situation uncomfortable."
"For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason."
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Marcus Aurelius
"For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason."
"The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free."
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
"The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free."
"Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect."
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Marcus Aurelius
"Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect."
"If you are in a position where you can reach people, then use your platform to stand up for a cause. HINT: social media is a platform."
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Germany Kent
"If you are in a position where you can reach people, then use your platform to stand up for a cause. HINT: social media is a platform."
"Do everything as in the eye of another."
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Seneca
"Do everything as in the eye of another."
"There is no health in those who are displeased by an element in Your creation, just as there was none in me when I was displeased by many things You had made. Because my soul didn't dare to say that my God displeased me, it refused to attribute to You whatever was displeasing."
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Saint Augustine
"There is no health in those who are displeased by an element in Your creation, just as there was none in me when I was displeased by many things You had made. Because my soul didn't dare to say that my God displeased me, it refused to attribute to You whatever was displeasing."
"Nothing befalls a man except what is in his nature to endure."
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Marcus Aurelius
"Nothing befalls a man except what is in his nature to endure."
"It is not the weight of the future or the past that is pressing upon you but ever that of the present alone. Even this burden too can be lessened if you confine it strictly to its own limits."
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Marcus Aurelius
"It is not the weight of the future or the past that is pressing upon you but ever that of the present alone. Even this burden too can be lessened if you confine it strictly to its own limits."
"Stay positive. Sometimes you don't even realize you're blocking your own blessings by thinking negatively and holding on to the past. Learn to let go."
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Germany Kent
"Stay positive. Sometimes you don't even realize you're blocking your own blessings by thinking negatively and holding on to the past. Learn to let go."
"Live your life in such a way that you'll be remembered for your kindness, compassion, fairness, character, benevolence, and a force for good who had much respect for life, in general."
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Germany Kent
"Live your life in such a way that you'll be remembered for your kindness, compassion, fairness, character, benevolence, and a force for good who had much respect for life, in general."
"You can't reach your potential by remaining in a past due season. Your breakthrough is coming. Strongholds are breaking. Get Ready!"
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Germany Kent
"You can't reach your potential by remaining in a past due season. Your breakthrough is coming. Strongholds are breaking. Get Ready!"
"Learn to master your thoughts and watch closely what you deposit into your spirit. Speak over your life. Living in peace has transformative power."
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Germany Kent
"Learn to master your thoughts and watch closely what you deposit into your spirit. Speak over your life. Living in peace has transformative power."
"The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it."
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Seneca
"The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it."
"It is not that we keep His commandments first and that then He loves but that He loves us and then we keep His commandments. This is that grace which is revealed to the humble but hidden from the proud."
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"It is not that we keep His commandments first and that then He loves but that He loves us and then we keep His commandments. This is that grace which is revealed to the humble but hidden from the proud."
"Book sense makes sense because someone has gone through it before and able to share it with you. Your job is to listen and discern."
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Germany Kent
"Book sense makes sense because someone has gone through it before and able to share it with you. Your job is to listen and discern."
"Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand."
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"Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand."
"Do not come into agreement with fear. Activate your faith, live in victory, speak over your life and expect great things to come your way."
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Germany Kent
"Do not come into agreement with fear. Activate your faith, live in victory, speak over your life and expect great things to come your way."
"Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself."
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Seneca
"Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself."
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"The only way you're going to reach places you've never gone is if you trust God's direction to do things you've never done."
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Germany Kent
"The only way you're going to reach places you've never gone is if you trust God's direction to do things you've never done."
"It is not fit that I should give myself pain, for I have never intentionally given pain even to another."
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Marcus Aurelius
"It is not fit that I should give myself pain, for I have never intentionally given pain even to another."
"Today, spend a little time cultivating relationships offline. Never forget that everybody isn't on social media."
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Germany Kent
"Today, spend a little time cultivating relationships offline. Never forget that everybody isn't on social media."
"Be nice to people... maybe it'll be unappreciated, unreciprocated, or ignored, but spread the love anyway. We rise by lifting others."
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Germany Kent
"Be nice to people... maybe it'll be unappreciated, unreciprocated, or ignored, but spread the love anyway. We rise by lifting others."
"Did you know that using social media can actually help you to increase your level of thinking?"
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Germany Kent
"Did you know that using social media can actually help you to increase your level of thinking?"
"Few of us realize our potential; because if we did, we would pursue our passion and walk in our purpose."
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Germany Kent
"Few of us realize our potential; because if we did, we would pursue our passion and walk in our purpose."
"A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two."
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Seneca
"A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two."
"Because words have deep meaning, Tweets have power."
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Germany Kent
"Because words have deep meaning, Tweets have power."
"When success is your only option, positivity has to be your only choice."
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Germany Kent
"When success is your only option, positivity has to be your only choice."
"Whom they have injured they also hate."
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Seneca
"Whom they have injured they also hate."
"Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time."
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Marcus Aurelius
"Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time."
"Men exist for the sake of one another."
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Marcus Aurelius
"Men exist for the sake of one another."
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"A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires."
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Marcus Aurelius
"A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires."
"It is not the actions of others which trouble us (for those actions are controlled by their governing part), but rather it is our own judgments. Therefore remove those judgments and resolve to let go of your anger, and it will already be gone. How do you let go? By realizing that such actions are not shameful to you."
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Marcus Aurelius
"It is not the actions of others which trouble us (for those actions are controlled by their governing part), but rather it is our own judgments. Therefore remove those judgments and resolve to let go of your anger, and it will already be gone. How do you let go? By realizing that such actions are not shameful to you."
"Sorrowers tend to avoid what they are most fond of and try to give vent to their grief."
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Seneca
"Sorrowers tend to avoid what they are most fond of and try to give vent to their grief."
"Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We've been using them not because we needed them but because we had them."
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Seneca
"Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We've been using them not because we needed them but because we had them."
"The one thing worth living for is to keep one's soul pure."
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Marcus Aurelius
"The one thing worth living for is to keep one's soul pure."
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