Quotes by Roman Authors - Page 11

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Courage in danger is half the battle.
Plautus
Fortune and love favor the brave.
Ovid
Happy the man who ventures boldly to defend what he holds dear.
Ovid
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
Saint Augustine
Soldiers strike the foe in the face!
Florus
Knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
It is courage courage courage that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity!
Horace
As a rule what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see.
Julius Caesar
Fools through false shame conceal their open wounds.
Horace
Fortune reveres the brave and overwhelms the cowardly.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
In difficult situations when hope seems feeble the boldest plans are safest.
Livy
In times of stress be bold and valiant.
Horace
Fortune helps the brave.
Virgil
Audacity augments courage hesitation fear.
Publilius Syrus
Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.
Seneca
The more corrupt the state the more laws.
Tacitus
When I think over what I have said I envy dumb people.
Seneca
Shoemaker stick to your last.
Pliny
I came I saw I conquered.
Julius Caesar
To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it.
Syrus
If you direct your whole thought to work itself none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
Quintilian
A man should remove not only unnecessary acts but also unnecessary thoughts for then superfluous activity will not follow.
Marcus Aurelius
No man will swim ashore and take his baggage with him.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
To do two things at once is to do neither.
Publilius Syrus
We are in the same boat
Pope Clement
The prickly thorn often bears soft roses.
Ovid
Either do not attempt at all or go through with it.
Ovid
Even now we can draw back. But once we cross that little bridge we must settle things by the sword.
Julius Caesar
The circumstances of others seem good to us while ours seem good to others.
Syrus
Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.
Phaedrus
And say to all the world "This was a man!"
Julius Caesar
There is change in all things. You yourself are subject to continual change and some decay and this is common to the entire universe.
Marcus Aurelius
For many men the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles it only changes them.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Why do we shrink from change? What can come into being save by change?
Marcus Aurelius
All things change nothing is extinguished.
Ovid
Fortune favours the bold.
Terence
You censure this with difficulty because you have allowed it to become customary.
St. Jerome
Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it will be a fish.
Ovid
In war events of importance are the result of trivial causes.
Julius Caesar
Hasten slowly.
Augustus Caesar
It is a good thing to learn caution by the misfortunes of others.
Syrus
Each needs the other: capital cannot do without labor nor labor without capital.
Pope Leo
Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.
Publilius Syrus
The universe would not be rich enough to buy the vote of an honest man.
St. Gregory
Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul.
Cicero
Fortune sides with him who dares.
Virgil
Luck affects everything. Let your hook be always cast. In the stream where you least expect it there will be fish.
Ovid
The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
Tertullian
Men willingly believe what they wish.
Julius Caesar
Well begun is half done.
Horace
The highest duty is to respect authority.
Pope Leo
An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many and grows inveterate in their insane breasts.
Juvenal
You do not publish your own verses Laelius you criticise mine. Pray cease to criticise mine or else publish your own.
Martial
A picture is a poem without words.
Horace
Style like the human body is specially beautiful when the veins are not prominent and the bones cannot be counted.
Tacitus
If you are surprised at the number of our maladies count our cooks.
Seneca
It is not death we fear but the thought of it.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
It is not death that a man should fear he should fear never beginning to live.
Marcus Aurelius