Quotes by Roman/Rome authors (page 17)

"It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while"

Horace, Poet

"It is your business when the wall next door catches fire"

Horace, Poet

"It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed"

Horace, Poet

"It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement"

Horace, Poet

"It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity"

Horace, Poet

"It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country"

Horace, Poet

"He has the deed half done who has made a beginning"

Horace, Poet

"He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world"

Horace, Poet

"He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful"

Horace, Poet

"Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing"

Horace, Poet

"Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much"

Horace, Poet

"Every old poem is sacred"

Horace, Poet

"Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it"

Horace, Poet

"Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing"

Horace, Poet

"Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth"

Horace, Poet

"Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them"

Horace, Poet

"Anger is a short madness"

Horace, Poet

"Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score"

Horace, Poet

"Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it"

Horace, Poet

"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant"

Horace, Poet

"A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably"

Horace, Poet

"A word once uttered can never be recalled"

Horace, Poet

"A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them"

Horace, Poet

"A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong"

Horace, Poet

"A picture is a poem without words"

Horace, Poet

"A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius"

Horace, Poet

"A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune"

Horace, Poet

"A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient"

Horace, Poet

"While we teach, we learn"

Seneca, Philosopher

"Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures"

Seneca, Philosopher

"Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones"

Seneca, Philosopher

"We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another"

Lucretius, Poet

"Victory puts us on a level with heaven"

Lucretius, Poet

"Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life"

Lucretius, Poet