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Quotes by Roman Authors
"The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury."
"The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself."
"We are born under circumstances that would be favorable if we did not abandon them. It was nature's intention that there should be no need of great equipment for a good life: every individual can make himself happy."
"Remember that all we have is "on loan from Fortune, which can reclaim it without our permission-indeed, without even advance notice. Thus, we should love all our dear ones, but always with the thought that we have no promise that we may keep them forever-nay, no promise even that we may keep them for long."
"When you run up against someone else's shamelessness, ask yourself this: Is a world without shamelessness possible?No. Then don't ask the impossible. There have to be shameless people in the world. This is one of them. The same for someone vicious or untrustworthy, or with any other defect. Remembering that the whole world class has to exist will make you more tolerant of its members."
"Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder."
"It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it."
"Points of views that are expressed on Twitter don't intend to offend, but rather defend and open the conversation up to everyone so that no one has to pretend."
"You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force."
"A good reputation is more valuable than money."
"To endeavor to domineer over conscience, is to invade the citadel of heaven."
"Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent."
"Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many."
"He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity."
"We can endure neither our vices nor the remedies for them."
"Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy."
"Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system."
"No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone."
"The courage of a soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession."
"No obligation to do the impossible is binding."
"Ira furor brevis est: animum rege: qui nisi paret imperat. (Anger is a brief madness: govern your mind [temper], for unless it obeys it commands.)"
"No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days."
"It is not every question that deserves an answer."
"In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present - I am rising to the work of a human being. Why then am I dissatisfied if I am going to do the things for which I exist and for which I was brought into the world?"
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