Quotes by Roman Authors - Page 2

Seize the day and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.
Horace
Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today.
Martial
Oh this age! How tasteless and ill-bred it is!
Catullus
Oh what times! Oh what standards!
Cicero
By-and-by never comes.
Saint Augustine
The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.
Lucan
Cease to inquire what the future has in store and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
Horace
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it if you have to with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
Marcus Aurelius
Things forbidden have a secret charm.
Tacitus
It is some relief to weep grief is satisfied and carried off by tears.
Ovid
The authority of those who profess to teach is often a positive hindrance to those who desire to learn.
Cicero
Religion is not removed by removing superstition.
Cicero
There is in superstition a senseless fear of God.
Cicero
Either do not attempt at all or go through with it.
Ovid
The sun shines even on the wicked.
Seneca
Success is not greedy as people think but insignificant. That's why it satisfies nobody.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
No one reaches a high position without daring.
Publilius Syrus
Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
Sallust
The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile endure awhile believe always and never turn back.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Failure changes for the better success for the worse.
Seneca
Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
Cicero
When in fear it is safest to force the attack.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
No power is strong enough to be lasting if it labors under the weight of fear.
Cicero
Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death.
Horace
Faith is to believe what we do not see the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.
Saint Augustine
Speech is the index of the mind.
Seneca
It is a tiresome way of speaking when you should despatch the business to beat about the bush.
Plautus
Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.
Propertius
In an easy cause any man may be eloquent.
Ovid
Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.
Cicero
Whatever is well said by another is mine.
Seneca
There is something pleasurable in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.
Cicero
Man is a social animal.
Seneca
Sleep rest of nature O sleep most gentle of the divinities peace of the soul thou at whose presence care disappears who soothest hearts wearied with daily employments and makest them strong again for labour!
Ovid
Love and do what you like.
Saint Augustine
I regret often that I have spoken never that I have been silent.
Syrus
I count him lost who is lost to shame.
Plautus
Lord make me chaste - but not yet.
St. Augustine
For they can conquer who believe they can.
Virgil
The gods help those who help themselves.
Marcus Terentius Varro
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
If we live good lives the times are also good. As we are such are the times.
Saint Augustine
Look well into thyself there is a source which will always spring up if thou wilt always search there.
Marcus Aurelius
Man must be arched and buttressed from within else the temple wavers to dust.
Marcus Aurelius
What pulls the strings is the force hidden within there lies ... the real man.
Marcus Aurelius
For the great benefits of our being- our life health and reason-we look upon ourselves.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
God hates those who praise themselves.
St. Clement
Don't ask of your friends what you yourself can do.
Quintus Ennius
A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
The best mask for demoralization is daring.
Lucan
All men love themselves.
Plautus
In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature but in men it is a vice.
Boethius
The precept "Know yourself " was not solely intended to obviate the pride of mankind but likewise that we might understand our own worth.
Cicero
The man who masters his own soul will forever be called conqueror of conquerors.
Plautus
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
They are able because they think they are able.
Virgil
Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks on great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.
Cicero
There's one blessing only the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. That man is best who has fewest.
Horace