Quotes by Roman Authors - Page 10

Unless you bear with the faults of a friend you betray your own.
Publilius Syrus
The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.
Augustine of Hippo
Few love what they may have.
Ovid
Whom they have injured they also hate.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
If matters go badly now they will not always be so.
Horace
If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt.
Marcus Aurelius
If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Anger is momentary madness so control your passion or it will control you.
Horace
Leave off asking what tomorrow will bring, andwhatever days fortune will give, count themas profit.
Horace
We should pray for a sane mind in a sound body.
Juvenal
The passing minute is every man's equal possession but what has once gone by is not ours.
Marcus Aurelius
Among wise men there is no place at all left for hatred. For no one except the greatest of fools would hate good men. And there is no reason at all for hating the bad. For just as weakness is a disease of the body, so wickedness is a disease of the mind. And if this is so, since we think of people who are sick in body as deserving sympathy rather than hatred, much more so do they deserve pity rather than blame who suffer an evil more severe than any physical illness.
Boethius
The worst hatred is that of relatives.
Tacitus
Courage is its own reward.
Plautus
To stumble twice against the same stone is a proverbial disgrace.
Cicero
I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.
Marcus Aurelius
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
Saint Augustine
For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?
Augustine of Hippo
There can only be two basic loves... the love of God unto the forgetfulness of self, or the love of self unto the forgetfulness and denial of God.
Augustine of Hippo
If all emotions are common coin, then what is unique to the good man?To welcome with affection what is sent by fate. Not to stain or disturb the spirit within him with a mess of false beliefs. Instead, to preserve it faithfully, by calmly obeying God – saying nothing untrue, doing nothing unjust. And if the others don’t acknowledge it – this life lived in simplicity, humility, cheerfulness – he doesn’t resent them for it, and isn’t deterred from following the road where it leads: to the end of life. An end to be approached in purity, in serenity, in acceptance, in peaceful unity with what must be.
Marcus Aurelius
He loved a lifeless thing and he was utterly and hopelessly wretched.
Ovid
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
Quintilian
What is food to one man is bitter poison to others
Titus Lucretius Carus
The bliss of the elect in heaven would not be perfect unless they were able to look across the abyss and enjoy the agonies of their brethren in eternal fire.
Pope Gregory I
Sine doctrina vita est quasi mortis imago" [Without learning, life is but the image of death]
Dionysius Cato
Unhappy is the man though he rule the world who doesn't consider himself supremely blessed.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks but only at what he does himself to make it just and holy.
Marcus Aurelius
Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue not a companion in vice.
Cicero
No more roundabout discussions of what makes a good man. Be one!
Marcus Aurelius
Nothing is left of meEach time I see her
Catullus
Amicu certus in re incerta cernitur' [A true friend is a friend when in difficulty]
Quintus Ennius
Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.”"Be patient and tough; one day this pain will be useful to you.
Ovid
We are born under circumstances that would be favorable if we did not abandon them. It was nature's intention that there should be no need of great equipment for a good life: every individual can make himself happy.
Seneca
The fox changes his skin but not his habits.
Suetonius
When he, whoever of the gods it was, had thus arranged in order and resolved that chaotic mass, and reduced it, thus resolved, to cosmic parts, he first moulded the Earth into the form of a mighty ball so that it might be of like form on every side … And, that no region might be without its own forms of animate life, the stars and divine forms occupied the floor of heaven, the sea fell to the shining fishes for their home, Earth received the beasts, and the mobile air the birds … Then Man was born:… though all other animals are prone, and fix their gaze upon the earth, he gave to Man an uplifted face and bade him stand erect and turn his eyes to heaven.
Ovid
Soldiers strike the foe in the face!
Florus
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
Augustine of Hippo
Get good counsel before you begin and when you have decided act promptly.
Sallust
I've come across people who say that there is a sort of inborn restlessness in the human spirit and an urge to change one's abode; for man is endowed with a mind which is changeable and and unsettled: nowhere at rest, it darts about and directs its thoughts to all places known and unknown, a wanderer which cannot endure repose and delights chiefly in novelty.
Seneca
The poor lack much, the greedy everything.
Publilius Syrus
A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.
Marcus Aurelius
The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
Augustine of Hippo
The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.
Terence
We speak, but it is God who teaches.
Augustine of Hippo
Old age especially an honoured old age has so great authority that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
Cicero
I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain.
Plautus
Whom they have injured they also hate.
Seneca
It's not that we have little time, but more that we waste a good deal of it.
Seneca
When it happens that I am more moved by the song than the thing which is sung, I confess that I sin in a manner deserving punishment
Augustine of Hippo
Either do not attempt at all or go through with it.
Ovid
The universe is flux, life is opinion.
Marcus Aurelius
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
A guilty person sometimes has the luck to escape detection, but never to feel sure of it.
Seneca
Ah, merciless Love, is there any length to which you cannot force the human heart to go?
Virgil
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all other virtues.
Cicero
Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
The sun also shines on the wicked.
Seneca
It is a persistent evil to persecute a man who belongs to the grace of God. It is a calamity without remedy to hate the happy.
Cyprian
Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.
Horace
Avarice is as destitute of what it has as poverty is of what it has not.
Publilius Syrus