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Quotes by Roman Authors
"As in the case of wines that improve with age the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful."
"There is in superstition a senseless fear of God."
"Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for something while you live and it is in your power."
"The world is mere change, and this life, opinion."
"Look well into thyself there is a source which will always spring up if thou wilt always search there."
"Oh what times! Oh what standards!"
"For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives."
"Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him."
"Man's best support is a very dear friend."
"If you aspire to the highest place it is no disgrace to stop at the second or even the third place."
"Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul."
"Certain signs precede certain events."
"What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious."
"We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory."
"Reason is the mistress and queen of all things."
"To live is to think."
"Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude."
"But if I am wrong in thinking the human soul immortal, I am glad to be wrong; nor will I allow the mistake which gives me so much pleasure to be wrested from me as long as I live."
"What one has one ought to use and whatever he does he should do with all his might."
"We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free."
"To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one's self to die."
"The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter."
"In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought."
"For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends."
"I never admired another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own."
"A friend is as it were a second self."
"Any man may make a mistake none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says."
"When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind."
"There is also a tradition about Socrates. He liked walking, it is recorded, until a late hour of the evening, and when someone asked him why he did this he said he was trying to work up an appetite for his dinner."
"We are bound by the law, so that we may be free."
"Never injure a friend, even in jest."
"In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy."
"Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things human and divine conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection."
"Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it."
"A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor."
"I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet."
"If a man should ascend alone into heaven and behold clearly the structure of the universe and the beauty of the stars, there would be no pleasure for him in the awe-inspiring sight, which would have filled him with delight if he had had someone to whom he could describe what he had seen. Nature abhors solitude."
"The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal."
"For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked."
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