Quotes by Roman Authors - Page 8

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
Marcus Aurelius
If thou workest at that which is before thee ... expecting nothing fearing nothing but satisfied with thy present activity according to Nature and with heroic truth in every word and sound which thou utterest thou wilt live happy. And there is no man who is able to prevent this.
Marcus Aurelius
Order your soul reduce your wants live in charity associate in Christian community obey the laws trust in Providence.
Saint Augustine
Learn how to feel joy.
Seneca
How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
Publilius Syrus
Unhappy is the man though he rule the world who doesn't consider himself supremely blessed.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
You will live wisely if you are happy in your lot.
Horace
I never admired another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.
Cicero
If thou workest at that which is before thee following right reason seriously vigorously calmly without allowing anything else to distract thee but keeping thy divine part pure as if thou shouldst be bound to give it back immediately if thou holdest to this expecting nothing fearing nothing but satisfied with thy present activity according to Nature and with heroic truth in every word and sound which thou utterest thou wilt live happy. And there is no man who is able to prevent this.
Marcus Aurelius
Habit if not resisted soon becomes necessity.
St. Augustine
The fox changes his skin but not his habits.
Suetonius
No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not annoy his host after three days.
Plautus
Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar it never fails of doing justice upon itself for every guilty person is his own hangman.
Seneca
He who flees from trial confesses his guilt.
Syrus
He who is greedy is always in want.
Horace
For greed all nature is too little.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Greed's worst point is its ingratitude.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
Cicero
There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.
Cicero
The foremost art of kings is the power to endure hatred.
Seneca
What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
Caius Terentius Varro
The goose gabbles amid the melodious swans.
Virgil
Gifts are hooks.
Martial
Accursed thirst for gold! what dost thou not compel mortals to do?
Virgil
Christ has made my soul beautiful with the jewels of grace and virtue.
Saint Agnes
To them that ask where have you seen the Gods or how do you know for certain there are Gods that you are so devout in their worship? I answer: Neither have I ever seen my own soul and yet I respect and honor it.
Marcus Aurelius
Lord who art always the same give that I know myself give that I know Thee.
St. Augustine
I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain.
Plautus
The one thing worth living for is to keep one's soul pure.
Marcus Aurelius
A man's worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.
Marcus Aurelius
Great is the road I climb but... the garland offered by an easier effort is not worth the gathering.
Propertius
There's some end at last for the man who follows a path mere rambling is interminable.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues.
Marcus Aurelius
Without a purpose nothing should be done.
Marcus Aurelius
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for no wind is the right wind.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Everyone is in a small way the image of God.
Marcus Manilius
I fear the Greeks even when they bring gifts.
Virgil
The opportunity is often lost by deliberating.
Publilius Syrus
He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
Horace
Words gain credibility by deed.
Terence
Get good counsel before you begin and when you have decided act promptly.
Sallust
If you want to do something do it!
Plautus
The hour is ripe and yonder lies the way.
Virgil
What is thine is mine and all mine is thine.
Plautus
A friend is as it were a second self.
Cicero
He who looks for advantage out of friendship strips it all of its nobility.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Of my friends I am the only one I have left.
Terence
Friendship neither finds nor makes equals.
Publilius Syrus
Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things human and divine conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.
Cicero
To like and dislike the same things this is what makes a solid friendship.
Sallust
One who's our friend is fond of us one who's fond of us isn't necessarily our friend.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
We die as often as we lose a friend.
Publilius Syrus
As in the case of wines that improve with age the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.
Cicero
The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
Cicero
Forget your woes when you see your friend.
Priscian
Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue not a companion in vice.
Cicero
Unless you bear with the faults of a friend you betray your own.
Publilius Syrus
Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.
Cicero
If two friends ask you to judge a dispute don't accept because you will lose one friend on the other hand if two strangers come with the same request accept because you will gain one friend.
Saint Augustine
Don't ask of your friends what you yourself can do.
Quintus Ennius