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Quotes by Roman Authors
"If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you're needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person."
"No power is strong enough to be lasting if it labors under the weight of fear."
"There's no room for hate and violence in this world. We must learn to be more kind, compassionate, empathetic, and sympathetic to humanity."
"Reason is the mistress and queen of all things."
"A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him."
"In war there is no prize for runner-up."
"The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body."
"If you are surprised at the number of our maladies count our cooks."
"In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought."
"And so there is no reason for you to think that any man has lived long because he has grey hairs or wrinkles, he has not lived long " he has existed long. For what if you should think that man had had a long voyage who had been caught by a fierce storm as soon as he left harbour, and, swept hither and thither by a succession of winds that raged from different quarters, had been driven in a circle around the same course? Not much voyaging did he have, but much tossing about."
"What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more."
"Finally, everybody agrees that no one pursuit can be successfully followed by a man who is preoccupied with many things-eloquence cannot, nor the liberal studies-since the mind, when distracted, takes in nothing very deeply, but rejects everything that is, as it were, crammed into it. There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living: there is nothing that is harder to learn."
"Night brings our troubles to the light rather than banishes them."
"Positive thinking is powerful thinking. If you want happiness, fulfillment, success and inner peace, start thinking you have the power to achieve those things. Focus on the bright side of life and expect positive results."
"Not he who has little but he who wishes more is poor."
"All things change nothing is extinguished."
"He used to raise a storm in a teapot."
"True happiness is to understand our duties toward God and man to enjoy the present without anxious dependence on the future not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have which is abundantly sufficient."
"It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing."
"The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal."
"People do not understand what a great revenue economy is."
"Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty."
"Every good man resists others in those points in which he resists himself."
"When your neighbor's house is afire your own property is at stake."
"In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory."
"We must stand up against old age and make up for its drawbacks by taking pains. We must fight it as we should an illness. We must look after our health, use moderate exercise, take just enough food and drink to recruit, but not to overload, our strength. Nor is it the body alone that must be supported, but the intellect and soul much more."
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