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Quotes by Roman Authors
"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."
"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."
"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."
"A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all other virtues."
"Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned - yet whose enormous fortune...has already brought him acquittal!"
"Man himself is a great deep, whose very hairs Thou numberest, O Lord, and they fall not to the ground without Thee. And yet are the hairs of his head easier to be numbered than his feelings, and the beatings of his heart."
"Loyalty is what we seek in friendship."
"Old age especially an honoured old age has so great authority that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth."
"I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of wha. I do not know."
"Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief."
"A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him."
"What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat."
"Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education."
"Be encouraged. Hold your head up high and know God is in control and has a plan for you. Instead of focusing on all the bad, be thankful for all the good."
"The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned."
"What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more."
"There are no snares more dangerous than those which lurk under the guise of duty or the name of relationship."
"Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered."
"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."
"He used to raise a storm in a teapot."
"The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page."
"Augustine taught that true freedom is not choice or lack of constraint, but being what you are meant to be. Humans were created in the image of God. True freedom, then, is not found in moving away from that image but only in living it out."
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