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Quotes by Roman Authors
"The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin."
"Hunger for gold is made greater as more gold is acquired."
"Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly."
"The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness."
"It is regret for the absence of his loved one which causes a mourner to grieve: yet it is clear that this in itself is bearable enough; for we do not weep at their being absent or intending to be absent during their lifetime, although when they leave our sight we have no more pleasure in them. What tortures us, therefore, is an idea."
"Malice drinks one-half of its own poison."
"If anyone says that the best life of all is to sail the sea, and then adds that I must not sail upon a sea where shipwrecks are a common occurrence and there are often sudden storms that sweep the helmsman in an adverse direction, I conclude that this man, although he lauds navigation, really forbids me to launch my ship."
"The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty."
"Where there are friends there is wealth."
"Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."
"Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved."
"The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed."
"The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?"
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