Quotes by Roman Authors - Page 3

Be content with what you are and wish not change nor dread your last day nor long for it.
Martial
What you think about yourself is much more important than what others think of you.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
My closest relation is myself.
Terence
Every one is bound to bear patiently the results of his own example.
Phaedrus
To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
If you would wish another to keep your secret first keep it yourself.
Seneca
Candour and generosity unless tempered by due moderation lead to ruin.
Tacitus
Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways - women gambling and farming. My family chose the slowest one.
Pope John
If you want to be loved be lovable.
Ovid
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
Fortune and love befriend the bold.
Ovid
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
It is not manly to turn one's back on fortune.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Choose a subject equal to your abilities think carefully what your shoulders may refuse and what they are capable of bearing.
Horace
A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing-to live in accord with his own nature.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
While you cannot resolve what you are at last you will be nothing.
Martial
This is the chief thing: be not perturbed for all things are according to the nature of the universal.
Marcus Aurelius
Let them know a real man who lives as he was meant to live.
Marcus Aurelius
Revenge is sweeter than life itself. So think fools.
Juvenal
Revenge is an inhuman word.
Seneca
Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.
Cato the Elder
Dismiss the old horse in good time lest he fail in the lists and the spectators laugh.
Horace
No man will be respected by others who is despised by his own relatives.
Plautus
The worst hatred is that of relatives.
Tacitus
It is more easy to get a favor from fortune than to keep it.
Publilius Syrus
Reason is the mistress and queen of all things.
Cicero
Reason can in general do more than blind force.
Gallus
There is no such thing as pure pleasure some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid
He who cannot do what he wants must make do with what he can.
Terence
If you aspire to the highest place it is no disgrace to stop at the second or even the third place.
Cicero
Vex not thy spirit at the course of things they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything that may happen in life.
Marcus Aurelius
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.
Juvenal
Many individuals have like uncut diamonds shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
Juvenal
In quarreling the truth is always lost.
Syrus
It is not every question that deserves an answer.
Syrus
I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet.
Cicero
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away hunger.
Saint Basil
We should lay up in peace what we shall need in war.
Syrus
Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.
Saint Augustine
The first petition that we are to make to Almighty God is for a good conscience the next for health of mind and then of body.
Seneca
We should pray for a sane mind in a sound body.
Juvenal
He who has great power should use it lightly.
Seneca
Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
Tacitus
He who sows courtesy reaps friendship and he who plants kindness gathers love.
Saint Basil
A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
Cicero
They can because they think they can.
Virgil
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts ... take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
Marcus Aurelius
A man's life is what his thoughts make it.
Marcus Aurelius
A gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity.
Livy
The man is either mad or he is making verses.
Horace
Poets have a license to lie.
Pliny the Younger
Poetry is the Devil's wine.
St. Augustine
Let your poem be kept nine years.
Horace
A fair exterior is a silent recommendation.
Publilius Syrus
It is the function of perfection to make one know one's imperfection.
Saint Augustine
His only fault is that he has no fault.
Pliny
I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.
Cicero