Quotes by Roman authors

"No man was ever wise by chance"

"We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired to glory"

"I am a man, I consider nothing that is human alien to me"

"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts; therefore guard accordingly"

"They can because they think they can"

"As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind"

"Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end"

"After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one"

"Even though work stops, expenses run on"

"Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system"

"Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses"

"An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes"

"Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability"

"There's no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness, brother"

"No blessing lasts forever"

"If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice"

"Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend"

"A contented mind is the best source for trouble"

"No sane man will dance"

"Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty"

"Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes"

"Hatred is settled anger"

"The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow"

"The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words"

"The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend"

"The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others"

"When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff"

"The more laws, the less justice"

"Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom"

"If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains"