Quotes by Roman Authors - Page 22

I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
Juvenal
Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.
Marcus Aurelius
The one thing worth living for is to keep one's soul pure.
Marcus Aurelius
Love conquers all. Let Love then smile at our defeat.
Virgil
This was how Dinocrates, recommended only by his good looks and dignified carriage, came to be so famous. But as for me, Emperor, nature has not given me stature, age has marred my face, and my strength is impaired by ill health.
Vitruvius Pollio
Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.
Augustine of Hippo
A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.
Quintus Curtius Rufus
He who is shipwrecked twice is foolish to blame the sea.
Publilius Syrus
Hail Caesar those who are about to die salute thee.
Suetonius
Mortal as I am, I know that I am born for a day. But when I follow at my pleasure the serried multitude of the stars in their circular course, my feet no longer touch the earth.
Ptolemy
There are many going afar to marvel at the heights of mountains, the mighty waves of the sea, the long courses of great rivers, the vastness of the ocean, the movements of the stars, yet they leave themselves unnoticed!
Augustine of Hippo
The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way.
Seneca
The good man is free, even if he is a slave. The evil man is a slave, even if he is a king.
Augustine of Hippo
Pale death kicks with impartial foot at the hovels of the poor and the towers of kings.
Horace
To do no evil is good, to intend none better.
Claudius
If something is difficult for you to accomplish, do not then think it impossible for any human being; rather, if it is humanly possible and corresponds to human nature, know that it is attainable by you as well.
Marcus Aurelius
The highest duty is to respect authority.
Pope Leo
The prickly thorn often bears soft roses.
Ovid
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for no wind is the right wind.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?
Cicero
I know the nature of women When you want to they don't want to And when you don't want to they desire exceedingly.
Terence