Quotes by Roman/Rome authors (page 8)

"Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due"

"Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world"

Cicero, Philosopher

"It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much"

Cicero, Philosopher

"It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal"

Cicero, Philosopher

"It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error"

Cicero, Philosopher

"It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness"

Cicero, Philosopher

"In time of war the laws are silent"

Cicero, Philosopher

"If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it"

Cicero, Philosopher

"I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity"

Cicero, Philosopher

"I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors"

Cicero, Philosopher

"I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own"

Cicero, Philosopher

"I criticize by creation - not by finding fault"

Cicero, Philosopher

"I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know"

Cicero, Philosopher

"I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability"

Cicero, Philosopher

"Honor is the reward of virtue"

Cicero, Philosopher

"He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason"

Cicero, Philosopher

"Freedom is a possession of inestimable value"

Cicero, Philosopher

"Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law"

Cicero, Philosopher

"For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends"

Cicero, Philosopher

"For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others"

Cicero, Philosopher

"Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty"

Cicero, Philosopher

"Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so"

Cicero, Philosopher

"Empire and liberty"

Cicero, Philosopher

"Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable"

Cicero, Philosopher

"Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body"

Cicero, Philosopher

"Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman