Quotes by roman authors

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Angry Wise Man Wise Man Treat Physician Patient Sick Extravagant Mad Only Take He Look Does His Nor Fever Just Them Mankind Should Ill Medical

A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Injustice Lasts Kingdom Never Founded

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. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Freedom You Surrender Suffering Defiance Evil Face Ought Our Cringe Evils Tell Shall Real Any Which Them Things

While we are postponing, life speeds by. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Life Speeds While

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it. Marcus Aurelius

Day You Change Long Wish Dread Content Nor Your Last

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live. Marcus Aurelius

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them. Marcus Aurelius

Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday. Marcus Aurelius

Today Good Too Late Tomorrow Yesterday Nothing Too Late Lived

Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt. Plautus

Man Mind Guilt Nothing More Wretched Than Conscious

It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to pay. Publilius Syrus

Pay Unable Fraud Borrow

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures. Seneca

Love Friendship Benefits Sometimes Always

The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise. Tacitus

Great Safety Every Enterprise Noble Against Stands Desire

As the twig is bent the tree inclines. Virgil

Tree Bent Twig

Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. Horace

Death Kings Impartial Hut Step Towers Knocks Poor Pale

Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Light Our Rather Troubles Than Them Brings Night

Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish. Marcus Aurelius

You Impossible Difficult Think Seems Because Accomplish Anyone Thing

An unjust peace is better than a just war. Marcus Tullius Cicero

War Peace Better Unjust Than Just

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence. Marcus Tullius Cicero

Great Eloquence Charm Brevity

To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace. Tacitus

Peace Wilderness Plunder Steal Empire Make Call Where Things Slaughter

A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all. Tacitus

Blessing Crime Few More Individuals Passive Shocking Committed Initiative

The first reaction to truth is hatred. Tertullian

Truth Truth Is Hatred First Reaction

Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance. Virgil

Patience Bad Come May Endurance Fortune Conquered

Consider what each soil will bear, and what each refuses. Virgil

Soil Will Consider Bear Refuses Each

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

Moving On Try Fools Wounds Shame Conceal Healed False