Quotes by Roman Authors - Page 7

Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.
Martial
When you have no basis for an argument abuse the plaintiff.
Cicero
Nothing is more silly than silly laughter.
Catullus
One cannot know everything.
Horace
The strictest justice is sometimes the greatest injustice.
Terence
Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
St. Augustine
Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.
Lactantius
Injustice never rules forever.
Seneca
Acquittal of the guilty damns the judge.
Horace
He who decides a case without hearing the other side though he decide justly cannot be considered just.
Seneca
He that is not jealous is not in love.
St. Augustine
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
Since love grows within you so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
St. Augustine
The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
Pliny the Elder
Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
Seneca
It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.
Seneca
Thou hast added insult to injury.
Phaedrus
It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.
Seneca
No man was ever great without a touch of divine afflatus.
Cicero
I teach that all men are mad.
Horace
No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality.
Cicero
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
Publilius Syrus
I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of wha. I do not know.
Cicero
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
Publilius Syrus
I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.
Cicero
A hungry people listens not to reason nor cares for justice nor is bent by any prayers.
Seneca
I am a man I count nothing human foreign to me.
Terence
To the sick while there is life there is hope.
Cicero
Just as dumb creatures are snared by food human beings would not be caught unless they had a nibble of hope.
Petronius
Never despair.
Horace
While there's life there's hope.
Terence
Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
Tertullian
Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
Pliny the Elder
Honesty's praised then left to freeze.
Juvenal
Home is where the heart is.
Pliny
I am a man nothing human is alien to me.
Terence
I often marvel how it is that though each man loves himself beyond all else he should yet value his own opinion of himself less than that of others.
Marcus Aurelius
Give the historians something to write about.
Propertius
Live for thy neighbor if thou wouldst live for thyself.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
What boundary ever set limits to the service of mankind?
Claudian
Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need the remainder is needed by others.
Saint Augustine
He gives twice who gives promptly.
Publilius Syrus
Knowing sorrow well I learn to succor the distressed.
Virgil
Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for a kindness.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
He who lives only for himself is truly dead to others.
Publilius Syrus
The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.
Terence
Hatred is settled anger.
Cicero
Whom they have injured they also hate.
Seneca
A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
Cicero
A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Happy is the man who ventures boldly to defend what he holds dear.
Ovid
No man is happy unless he believes he is.
Publilius Syrus
Happy [is] the man who has learned the cause of things and has put under his feet all fear inexorable fate and the noisy strife of the hell of greed.
Virgil
And may I live the remainder of my life ... for myself may there be plenty of books and many years' store of the fruits of the earth!
Horace
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
Marcus Aurelius
A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
No man can live happily who regards himself alone who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another if thou wishest to live for thyself.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
A man's happiness: to do the things proper to man.
Marcus Aurelius
We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learned to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
Juvenal
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