Quotes by roman authors

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes. Horace

Life Sometimes Fools Lesson Know Greatest Even Right

Life is largely a matter of expectation. Horace

Life Matter Expectation Largely

You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back. Horace

Nature You Drive Back Out Running Constantly She May

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

Mind Yesterday Down Excess Body

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered. Horace

Words Matter Will Considered Fail Well

Only let it be in the name of Jesus Christ, that I may suffer together with Him! I endure everything because He Himself, Who is perfect man, empowers me. Ignatius of Antioch

It is outrageous to utter the name of Jesus Christ and live in Judaism. Ignatius of Antioch

Christ Live Outrageous Name Judaism Utter Jesus Jesus Christ

I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments. Julius Caesar

Long Enough Both Years Accomplishments Lived

It is difficult not to write satire. Juvenal

Satire Difficult Write

I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason. Juvenal

Brainy Will Wish Take Command Place Reason

There is hardly a case in which the dispute was not caused by a woman. Juvenal

Woman Case Caused Which Dispute Hardly

Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes. Livy

Men Recognize Slower Misfortunes Blessings Than

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Harvest Bad Must Sowing After Even

In war there is no prize for runner-up. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

War Runner-Up Prize

When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Good Advice Those Well Good Advice Ill Who

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

You Think Enraged Consider Would He Die Any Should Dispute

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

You Better Consider Worse See Better Off How Off Than Many

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Death Wish Relief Some End Many