Quotes by Roman/Rome authors (page 1)

"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"

Cicero, Philosopher

"The more laws, the less justice"

Cicero, Philosopher

"There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it"

Ovid, Poet

"Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove"

Juvenal, Poet

"No man was ever wise by chance"

Seneca, Philosopher

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

Cicero, Philosopher

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

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

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

Terence, Playwright

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

Cicero, Philosopher

"Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"They can because they think they can"

Virgil, Writer

"There are more men ennobled by study than by nature"

Cicero, Philosopher

"The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured"

Cicero, Philosopher

"Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak"

Cicero, Philosopher

"Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"Their silence is praise enough"

Terence, Playwright

"All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome"

Tacitus, Historian

"Few men are born brave. Many become so through training and force of discipline"

Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus, Writer

"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"

Cicero, Philosopher

"Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"He has committed the crime who profits by it"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"A man should be upright, not be kept upright"

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

"You can learn from anyone even your enemy"

Ovid, Poet

"To do no evil is good, to intend none better"

Claudius, Leader

"The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page"

Saint Augustine, Saint

"It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life"

Julius Caesar, Leader

"What is food to one man is bitter poison to others"

Lucretius, Poet

"Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education"

Cicero, Philosopher

"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"

Cicero, Philosopher

"One who sees the Supersoul accompanying the individual soul in all bodies and who understands that neither the soul nor the Supersoul is ever destroyed, actually sees"

Cicero, Philosopher