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Quotes by Roman Authors
"The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions."
"Love of bustle is not industry."
"A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor."
"I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet."
"And do you know why we have not the power to attain this Stoic ideal? It is because we refuse to believe in our power. Nay, of a surety, there is something else which plays a part: it is because we are in love with our vices; we uphold them and prefer to make excuses for them rather than shake them off. We mortals have been endowed with sufficient strength by nature, if only we use this strength, if only we concentrate our powers and rouse them all to help us or at least not to hinder us. The reason is unwillingness, the excuse, inability."
"I can't change you and you can't change me, but together we can work to change the world."
"There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage."
"If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started."
"Le bonheur, c'est continuer à désirer ce que l'on a déjà."
"Let the Lord your God be your hope " seek for nothing else from him, but let him himself be your hope. There are people who hope from him riches or perishable and transitory honours, in short they hope to get from God things which are not God himself."
"The world needs more love and Twitter just figured out a way to send 'hearts all over the world'."
"I know that these mental disturbances of mine are not dangerous and give no promise of a storm; to express what I complain of in apt metaphor, I am distressed, not by a tempest, but by sea-sickness."
"Nothing common can seem worthy of you."
"A happy life consists in tranquility of mind."
"Every sin is the result of a collaboration."
"No man was ever wise by chance."
"No man in his senses will dance."
"According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another."
"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."
"Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough."
"Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom."
"One who sees the Supersoul accompanying the individual soul in all bodies and who understands that neither the soul nor the Supersoul is ever destroyed, actually sees."
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