Quotes by Roman Authors - Page 6

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
Love and do what you like.
Saint Augustine
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
Either do not attempt at all or go through with it.
Ovid
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
It is for the superfluous things of life that men sweat.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory.
Cicero
What you are must always displease you if you would attain to that which you are not.
Saint Augustine
I wish it I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason.
Juvenal
If God adds another day to our life let us receive it gladly.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Snow endures but for a season and joy comes with the morning.
Marcus Aurelius
It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us.
Plautus
A good mind possesses a kingdom: a great fortune is a great slavery.
Seneca
To live long it is necessary to live slowly.
Cicero
In everything the middle course is best: all things in excess bring trouble to men.
Plautus
Fire tries gold misery tries brave men.
Seneca
A sound mind in a sound body is a thing to be prayed for.
Juvenal
There are some remedies worse than the disease.
Publilius Syrus
Be content with what you are and wish not change not dread your last day not long for it.
Martial
If thou wouldst marry wisely marry thine equal.
Ovid
What once were vices are now manners.
Seneca
Suit your manner to the man.
Terence
Man is a social animal.
Seneca
A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth.
Cicero
We must master our good fortune or it will master us.
Publilius Syrus
Everybody in love is blind.
Propertius
If you want to be loved be lovable.
Ovid
Do not pluck the beard of a dead lion.
Martial
When large numbers of people share their joy in common the happiness of each is greater because each adds fuel to the other's flame.
Saint Augustine
Burdens become light when cheerfully borne.
Ovid
True happiness is to understand our duties toward God and man to enjoy the present without anxious dependence on the future not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have which is abundantly sufficient.
Seneca
As is a tale so is life: not how long it is but how good it is is what matters.
Seneca
Life is a stranger's sojourn a night at an inn.
Marcus Aurelius
The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing. The main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unforeseen attack.
Marcus Aurelius
We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.
Cicero
A liar should have a good memory.
Quintilian
Every woman's man and every man's woman.
Julius Caesar
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus
All wish to be learned but no one is willing to pay the price.
Juvenal
Men learn while they teach.
Seneca
All things obey fixed laws.
Marcus Manilius