Quotes by Roman Authors - Page 24

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.
Marcus Aurelius
No man was ever wise by chance
Seneca
Fas est ab hoste doceri.One should learn even from one's enemies.
Ovid
When another blames you or hates you, or people voice similar criticisms, go to their souls, penetrate inside and see what sort of people they are. You will realize that there is no need to be racked with anxiety that they should hold any particular opinion about you.
Marcus Aurelius
The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
Marcus Aurelius
Non est ad astra mollis e terris via" - "There is no easy way from the earth to the stars
Seneca
Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.
Augustine of Hippo
It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
Plotinus
Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.
Marcus Aurelius
Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for something while you live and it is in your power.
Marcus Aurelius
I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being all the more killed.
Augustine of Hippo
The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
Augustine of Hippo
Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?
Marcus Aurelius
Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
Augustine of Hippo
Don't go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.
Marcus Aurelius
Death twitches my ear;'Live,' he says... 'I'm coming.
Virgil
How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.
Marcus Aurelius
Here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not "This is misfortune," but "To bear this worthily is good fortune.
Marcus Aurelius
The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
Marcus Aurelius
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
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
Seneca
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
Seneca
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
Marcus Aurelius
Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.
Ovid
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Seneca
Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it.
Marcus Aurelius
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
Marcus Aurelius
Timendi causa est nescire - Ignorance is the cause of fear.
Seneca
The greatest wealth is health
Virgil
Life is like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.
Seneca
While there's life, there's hope.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.
Marcus Aurelius
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
Marcus Aurelius
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
Marcus Aurelius
When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...
Marcus Aurelius
Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
Marcus Aurelius
Once for all, then, a short precept is given thee: Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy peace; whether thou cry out, through love cry out; whether thou correct, through love correct; whether thou spare, through love do thou spare: let the root of love be within, of this root can nothing spring but what is good.
Augustine of Hippo
I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.
Ovid
To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.
Augustine of Hippo
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,but do so with all your heart.
Marcus Aurelius