Quotes by Roman Authors - Page 10

From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus
Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.
Publilius Syrus
Any man can make mistakes but only an idiot persists in his error.
Cicero
He who is shipwrecked twice is foolish to blame the sea.
Publilius Syrus
To stumble twice against the same stone is a proverbial disgrace.
Cicero
It is human to err but it is devilish to remain willfully in error.
Saint Augustine
One eye-witness is of more weight than ten hearsays.
Plautus
Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls.
Plautus
Let us be brave in the face of adversity.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
Boethius
In adversity remember to keep an even mind.
Horace
If you are distressed by anything external the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
Marcus Aurelius
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
Publilius Syrus
General Quotations about Evenings Let us add this one more night to our lives.
Suetonius
Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.
Marcus Aurelius
Sleep ... peace of the soul who put-test care to flight.
Ovid
We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
What one has one ought to use and whatever he does he should do with all his might.
Cicero
Let us go singing as far as we go the road will be less tedious.
Virgil
Love and do what you like.
St. Augustine
Luxury is more deadly than any foe.
Juvenal
Man is his own worst enemy.
Cicero
What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?
Cicero
Thou shouldst eat to live not live to eat.
Cicero
I would appeal to Philip she said but to Philip sober.
Valerius Maximus
In vino Veritas. (In wine there is truth.)
Pliny the Elder
The only certainty is that nothing is certain.
Pliny the Elder
The cowardly dog barks more violently than it bites.
Quintus Curtius Rufus
Some remedies are worse than the disease.
Syrus
Whatever disgrace we may have deserved it is almost always in our power to re-establish our character.
Plautus
Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.
Plautus
Time is like a river of fleeting events and its current is strong as soon as something comes into sight it is swept past us and something else takes its place and that too will be swept away.
Marcus Aurelius
Time bears away all things.
Virgil
Perhaps someday it will be pleasant to remember even this.
Virgil
If matters go badly now they will not always be so.
Horace
What must be shall be and that which is a necessity to him that struggles is little more than choice to him that is willing.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
No one knows what he can to do until he tries.
Publilius Syrus
We begin to die as soon as we are born and the end is linked to the beginning.
Marcus Manilius
There is no man so blessed that some who stand by his deathbed won't hail the occasion with delight.
Marcus Aurelius
As men we are all equal in the presence of death.
Publilius Syrus
No man in his senses will dance.
Cicero
They who love dancing too much seem to have more brains in their feet than in their head.
Terence
No one reaches a high position without daring.
Syrus
All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca
Always bring money along with your complaints.
Plautus
Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime another a crown.
Juvenal
It's a bad plan that can't be changed.
Publilius Syrus
A man of courage is also full of faith.
Cicero
Hail Caesar those who are about to die salute thee.
Suetonius
A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.
Quintus Curtius Rufus
Nothing befalls a man except what is in his nature to endure.
Marcus Aurelius
Courage easily finds its own eloquence.
Plautus
Nothing is as valuable to a man as courage.
Terence
Courage is the virtue which champions the cause of right.
Cicero
Courage is what preserves our liberty safety life and our homes and parents our country and children. Courage comprises all things.
Plautus
Courage is its own reward.
Plautus
Necessity makes even the timid brave.
Sallust
Courage leads starward fear toward death.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Courage is a scorner of things which inspire fear.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
Horace