Quotes by Roman Authors - Page 5

Let him who has enough wish for nothing more.
Horace
Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
Marcus Aurelius
Once you have rid yourself of the affliction there, though, every change of scene will become a pleasure. You may be banished to the ends of the earth, and yet in whatever outlandish corner of the world you may find yourself stationed, you will find that place, whatever it may be like, a hospitable home. Where you arrive does not matter so much as what sort of person you are when you arrive there.
Seneca
It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.
Seneca
If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt.
Marcus Aurelius
You have the chief spark of your health's fire, for you have true knowledge of the hand that guides the universe.
Boethius
Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today.
Martial
But if you do not wish to die of thirst in the desert, drink charity. This is the fountain the Lord has willed to place here, lest we faint on the way, and we shall drink it more abundantly when we come to the Fatherland.
Augustine of Hippo
When spirits fall, their darkness is revealed, for they are stripped of the garment of your light. By the misery and restlessness which they then suffer you make clear to us how noble a being is your rational creation, for nothing less than yourself suffices to give it rest and happiness. This means that it cannot find them in itself. For you, O God, will shine on the darkness about us. From you proceeds our garment of light, and our dusk shall be noonday.
Augustine of Hippo
Only a mind that is deeply stirred can utter something noble and beyond the power of others.
Seneca
We must master our good fortune or it will master us.
Publilius Syrus
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
Marcus Aurelius
What you are must always displease you if you would attain to that which you are not.
Saint Augustine
What Saint has ever won his crown without first contending for it?
Jerome
We gaze up at the same stars, the sky covers us all, the same universe encompasses us. What does it matter what practical system we adopt in our search for the truth? Not by one avenue only can we arrive at so tremendous a secret.
Quintus Aurelius Symmachus
striid andWthdraw into yourself. Our master-reason asks no more than to act justly, and thereby to achieve calm.
Marcus Aurelius
Each needs the other: capital cannot do without labor nor labor without capital.
Pope Leo
Every lover is a soldier.
Ovid
Night brings our troubles to the light rather than banishes them.
Seneca
Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.
Saint Augustine
You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. Come, Lord, stir us up and call us back. Kindle and seize us. Be our fire and our sweetness. Let us love. Let us run.
Augustine of Hippo
...a man is not in any difficulty in making a reply according to his faith ... to those who try to defame our Holy Scripture. ... when they produce from any of their books a theory contrary to Scripture ... either we shall have some ability to demonstrate that it is absolutely false, or at least we ourselves will hold it so without any shadow of a doubt. ...let us choose [the doctrine] which appears as certainly the meaning intended by the author. ... For it is one thing to fail to recognize the primary meaning of the writer, and another to depart from the norms of religious belief.
Augustine of Hippo
All things change nothing is extinguished.
Ovid
And they are ignorant that the purpose of the sword is to save every man from slavery.
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
Error, indeed is never set forth in its naked deformity, lest, being thus exposed, it should at once be detected. But it is craftily decked out in an attractive dress, so as, by its outward form, to make it appear to the inexperienced more true than truth itself.
Irenaeus of Lyons
It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.
Seneca