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"Extreme law is often extreme injustice"
Terence, Playwright
"Happy is he who can trace effects to their causes"
Virgil, Writer
"All our sweetest hours fly fastest"
Virgil, Writer
"Age carries all things away, even the mind"
Virgil, Writer
"A fault is fostered by concealment"
Virgil, Writer
"Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable"
Tacitus, Historian
"To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace"
Tacitus, Historian
"Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life"
Seneca, Philosopher
"Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's wall is ablaze"
Horace, Poet
"He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long"
Horace, Poet
"Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another"
Juvenal, Poet
"No one is free who does not lord over himself"
Claudius, Leader
"Every man is the architect of his own fortune"
Sallust, Historian
"God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist"
Saint Augustine, Saint
"Hope is patience with the lamp lit"
Tertullian, Author
"No sane man will dance"
Cicero, Philosopher
"Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty"
Cicero, Philosopher
"Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts"
Cicero, Philosopher
"In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body"
Cicero, Philosopher
"Hatred is inveterate anger"
Cicero, Philosopher
"Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?"
Cicero, Philosopher
"Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error"
Cicero, Philosopher
"Ability without honor is useless"
Cicero, Philosopher
"A letter does not blush"
Cicero, Philosopher
"Whatever you do, do with all your might"
Cicero, Philosopher
"What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes"
Cicero, Philosopher
"What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us"
Cicero, Philosopher
"The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living"
Cicero, Philosopher
"The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk"
Cicero, Philosopher
"No one can give you better advice than yourself"
Cicero, Philosopher
"No obligation to do the impossible is binding"
Cicero, Philosopher
"Never injure a friend, even in jest"
Cicero, Philosopher
"Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense"
Cicero, Philosopher
"It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment"
Cicero, Philosopher
"The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it"
Seneca the Younger, Statesman
"I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives"
Seneca the Younger, Statesman
"Crime when it succeeds is called virtue"
Seneca the Younger, Statesman
"The way is long if one follows precepts, but short... if one follows patterns"
Seneca the Younger, Statesman
"That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty"
Seneca the Younger, Statesman
"Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity"
Seneca the Younger, Statesman
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