Quotes by Roman Authors - Page 4

Peace is the first thing the angels sang. Peace is the mark of the sons of God. Peace is the nurse of love. Peace is the mother of unity. Peace is the rest of blessed souls. Peace is the dwelling place of eternity.
Leo the Great
Where they make a desert they call it peace.
Tacitus
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
Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
Marcus Aurelius
Hasten slowly.
Augustus Caesar
There is nothing so bitter that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.
Seneca
A picture is a poem without words.
Horace
The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.
Syrus
Fear betrays unworthy souls.
Virgil
If you wish to fear nothing consider that everything is to be feared.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
I never admired another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.
Cicero
Pale death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.
Horace
In Rome you long for the country. In the country you praise to the skies the distant town.
Horace
No one is content with his own lot.
Horace
Every stage of life has its troubles and no man is content with his own age.
Ausonius
None of us is ever satisfied with what we are.
Terence
Luck affects everything. Let your hook be always cast. In the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.
Ovid
The opportunity is often lost by deliberating.
Publilius Syrus
So many men so many opinions.
Terence
Time is a stream which glides smoothly on and is past before we know.
Ovid
Time is the devourer of all things.
Ovid
What then is time? If no one asks me I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks I do not know.
Saint Augustine
Nothing is more powerful than habit.
Ovid
The longest day is soon ended.
Pliny
To live each day as though one's last never flustered never apathetic never attitudinizing-here is perfection of character.
Marcus Aurelius
Each day should be passed as though it were our last.
Publilius Syrus
One should count each day a separate life.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Add each day something to fortify you against poverty and death.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Each day provides its own gifts.
Martial
He possesses dominion over himself and is happy who can every day say "I have lived." Tomorrow the heavenly Father may either involve the world in dark clouds or cheer it with clear sunshine he will not however render ineffectual the things which have already taken place.
Horace
Nothing is ours except time.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Live mindful of how brief your life is.
Horace
Gladly accept the gifts of the present hour.
Horace
They laboriously do nothing.
Seneca
Endure and preserve yourselves for better things.
Virgil
Every kind of fortune is to be overcome by bearing it.
Virgil
Make haste slowly.
Augustus
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
Lucretius
It is easier to begin well than to finish well.
Plautus
Necessity makes even the timid brave.
Sallust
When your neighbor's house is afire your own property is at stake.
Horace
The crop always seems better in our neighbor's field and our neighbor's cow gives more milk.
Ovid
The beauty of the world and the orderly arrangement of everything celestial makes us confess that there is an excellent and eternal nature which ought to be worshiped and admired by all mankind.
Cicero
The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at.
Horace
It is for the superfluous things of life that men sweat.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
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