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Quotes by Roman Authors
"That you would not anticipate misery since the evils you dread as coming upon you may perhaps never reach you at least they are not yet come Thus some things torture us more than they ought, some before they ought and some which ought never to torture us at all. We heighten our pain either by presupposing a cause or anticipation."
"Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends."
"How silly then to imagine that the human mind, which is formed of the same elements as divine beings, objects to movement and change of abode, while the divine nature finds delight and even self-preservation in continual and very rapid change."
"What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself."
"Don't spend your life wondering "what if" and worrying over something you have no control. What's done is done. Looking backwards will cause you to miss out on new blessings ahead. Move on."
"Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable."
"Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief."
"What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat."
"Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so."
"For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends."
"Any man may make a mistake none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says."
"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."
"Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders."
"The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk."
"We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation."
"To live is to think."
"We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free."
"There are no snares more dangerous than those which lurk under the guise of duty or the name of relationship."
"Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live."
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