Quotes by Roman/Rome authors (page 20)

"Cowards die many times before their actual deaths"

Julius Caesar, Leader

"Caesar's wife must be above suspicion"

Julius Caesar, Leader

"As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can"

Julius Caesar, Leader

"Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart"

Saint Augustine, Saint

"What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know"

Saint Augustine, Saint

"What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels"

Saint Augustine, Saint

"What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like"

Saint Augustine, Saint

"We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot"

Saint Augustine, Saint

"We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain"

Saint Augustine, Saint

"To seek the highest good is to live well"

Saint Augustine, Saint

"To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation"

Saint Augustine, Saint

"The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer"

Saint Augustine, Saint

"The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works"

Saint Augustine, Saint

"Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul"

Saint Augustine, Saint

"Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand"

Saint Augustine, Saint

"Punishment is justice for the unjust"

Saint Augustine, Saint

"Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you"

Saint Augustine, Saint

"Patience is the companion of wisdom"

Saint Augustine, Saint

"Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act"

Saint Augustine, Saint

"Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point"

Saint Augustine, Saint

"Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet"

Saint Augustine, Saint

"Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible"

Saint Augustine, Saint

"In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?"

Saint Augustine, Saint

"If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself"

Saint Augustine, Saint

"If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times"

Saint Augustine, Saint

"If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe"

Saint Augustine, Saint

"If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend"

Saint Augustine, Saint

"I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him"

Saint Augustine, Saint

"I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within"

Saint Augustine, Saint

"Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance"

Saint Augustine, Saint