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Quotes by Roman Authors
"What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also."
"All things fade and quickly turn to myth."
"Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too."
"Whether it be the heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, or the hand to execute."
"The right of election is the very essence of the constitution."
"Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing."
"The perfection of art is to conceal art."
"Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood."
"Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes."
"He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity."
"Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune."
"Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish."
"We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot."
"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."
"Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures."
"You are responsible for everything you TWEET and RETWEET."
"However much you possess there's someone else who has more, and you'll be fancying yourself to be short of things you need to exact extent to which you lag behind him."
"We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right."
"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."
"There are more things, Lucilius, likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality."
"Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear."
"We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift."
"Custom is second nature."
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