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Nothing is miserable unless you think it is so. Boethius
You Miserable Nothing Think Unless
In labouring to be concise, I become obscure. Horace
Become Obscure Concise Labouring
During a few days' halt near Vesontio for the provision of corn and other supplies, a panic arose from inquiries made by our troops and remarks uttered by Gauls and traders, who affirmed that the Germans were men of a mighty frame and an incredible valour and skill at arms. Julius Caesar
Made Men Few Corn Other Incredible Panic Frame Our Valour Troops Remarks Supplies Days Arms Halt Were Provision Germans Mighty Skill Who Near Uttered
It was the wont of the immortal gods sometimes to grant prosperity and long impunity to men whose crimes they were minded to punish in order that a complete reverse of fortune might make them suffer more bitterly. Julius Caesar
Sometimes Prosperity Men Long Minded Crimes Complete Punish Immortal More Make Were Reverse Gods Wont Impunity Order Them Might Grant Fortune Suffer Whose
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. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Life Wisdom Words Mind Our Color Firmness Talk Well Make Mastery Does Itself Precept Us Much Show Teaches Actions Appetite
The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Knowledge First Step Sin First Step Person Salvation
It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Life Man Laugh More Over Over It Fitting Than Lament
It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Great Mind Sign Great Mind Excess Greatness Prefer Dislike Measure Things
Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
You Will Wish Had Got Ask
No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Heart Discipline Evil Human Heart Propensity Powerful Subdued May Human
Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself. Marcus Aurelius
Yourself People First Practice Design Significant Would Would-Be Constant See More Look Make Method Often Custom Your Actions
Where a man can live, he can also live well. Marcus Aurelius
Man Live He Also Well Where
Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Truth Nature Longing Our Minds Insatiable See Planted
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. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Man Age Youth Old Mind Pleased Rule Approve Follows Something Never He Him Am May Old Man Body Less
The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Law Precepts Live Honestly Else Everyone Everyone Else Give No-One Due His Injure
According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Nature Law Become Only Through No-One Fair Another According Richer Should Injuries Suffered Damages
Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Nature Character Live Our Nurtured Those Circumstances Habits Which Forms Race Much Product Heredity
It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Grief Made Hair Sympathy Though Would Would-Be Foolish Sorrow Baldness Less Tear
Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Wisdom Knowledge Justice Rather Divorced Cunning Than May Which
Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Silence Denial Though Admission Either Necessarily
Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Hope Great Confidence Trust Mind Feeling Honorable Sure Courses Itself Which
Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Money Nothing Strongly Taken Cannot Fortified
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Those Obstacle Learn Authority Often Want Teach Who
The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean. Ovid
Lamp Clean Oil Burns Bright
Either do not attempt at all, or go through with it. Ovid
Through Attempt Go Either
An alliance with a powerful person is never safe. Phaedrus
Power Alliance Never Powerful Safe Person
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