Quotes by Roman Authors - Page 9

Man's best support is a very dear friend.
Cicero
Your wealth is where your friends are.
Plautus
A friend must not be injured even in jest.
Syrus
Reprove your friends in secret praise them openly.
Syrus
As the yellow gold is tried in fire so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.
Ovid
Prosperity makes friends adversity tries them.
Publilius Syrus
Of my friends I am the only one I have left.
Terence
Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.
Livy
Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
Sallust
Fortune and Love befriend the bold.
Ovid
Forgive others often yourself never.
Syrus
It is fortune not wisdom that rules man's life.
Cicero
Be satisfied and pleased with what thou art Act cheerfully and well thou allotted part Enjoy the present hour be thankful for the past And neither fear nor wish the approaches of the last.
Martial
Try to live the life of the good man who is more than content with what is allocated to him.
Marcus Aurelius
If only every man would make proper use of his strength and do his utmost he need never regret his limited ability.
Cicero
Not he who has little but he who wishes more is poor.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
The covetous man is always poor.
Claudian
What is the proper limit for wealth? It is first to have what is necessary and second to have what is enough.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Let him who has enough wish for nothing more.
Horace
Avarice is as destitute of what it has as poverty is of what it has not.
Publilius Syrus
The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches.
Lucretius
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all other virtues.
Cicero
He who receives a benefit with gratitude repays the first installment on his debt.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Take full account of the excellencies which you possess and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them if you had them not.
Marcus Aurelius
A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Few love what they may have.
Ovid
Happy the man who can count his sufferings.
Ovid
We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres or a little money and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth and for the great benefits of our being our life health and reason we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.
Horace
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away hunger.
Saint Basil
Failure changes for the better success for the worse.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
No evil is without its compensation ... it is not the loss itself but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Too happy would you be did ye but know your own advantages!
Virgil
There is nothing so bitter that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost and was found is saved from being lost again.
Saint Augustine
I can pardon everybody's mistakes except my own.
Marcus Porcius Cato
Whom they have injured they also hate.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Anger is a short madness.
Horace
Malice drinks one-half of its own poison.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
To stumble twice against the same stone is a proverbial disgrace.
Cicero
A great step toward independence is a good-humoured stomach.
Seneca
Your own property is concerned when your neighbor's house is on fire.
Horace
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
Juvenal
We are more often frightened than hurt and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
If we let things terrify us life will not be worth living.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Fear is the proof of a degenerate mind.
Virgil
In doubt fear is the worst of prophets.
Statius
No power is strong enough to be lasting if it labors under the weight of fear.
Cicero
Where fear is happiness is not.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
The flocks fear the wolf the crops the storm and the trees the wind.
Virgil
Fate rules the affairs of mankind with no recognizable order.
Seneca
Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.
Marcus Aurelius
Certain signs precede certain events.
Cicero
What a great blessing is a friend with a heart so trusty you may safely bury all your secrets in it.
Seneca
After I am dead I would rather have men ask why Cato has no monument than why he had one.
Cato the Elder
Faith is to believe what we do not see and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.
St. Augustine
Seek not to understand that thou mayest believe but believe that thou mayest understand.
Saint Augustine
Faith is to believe what you do not yet see the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.
Saint Augustine
Faith is to believe what we do not see the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.
Saint Augustine