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Quotes by Roman Authors
"Patience is the best remedy for every trouble."
"Life, if well lived, is long enough."
"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."
"People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude."
"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?"
"Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment."
"To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship."
"The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood."
"The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted."
"Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator."
"A man's as miserable as he thinks he is."
"When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank."
"Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power."
"Whatever this is that I am, it is a little flesh and breath, and the ruling part. Throw away thy books; no longer distract thyself: it is not allowed; but as if thou wast now dying, despise the flesh; it is blood and bones and a network, a contexture of nerves, veins, and arteries. See the breath also, what kind of a thing it is, air, and not always the same, but every moment sent out and again sucked in. The third then is the ruling part: consider thus: Thou art an old man; no longer let this be a slave, no longer be pulled by the strings like a puppet to unsocial movements, no longer be either dissatisfied with thy present lot, or shrink from the future."
"Take full account of the excellencies which you possess and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them if you had them not."
"He fashioned hell for the inquisitive."
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