Quotes by roman authors

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score. Horace

You Win Penalty Composure Box Always Score Your Keep

I would rather die and come to Jesus Christ than be king over the entire earth. Him I seek who died for us; Him I love who rose again because of us. Ignatius of Antioch

Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish. Julius Caesar

Men Wish Believe Willing Always Nearly

Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'. Julius Caesar

Death Every Other Unexpected Which

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Own Those Punished Remorse Subject Person Whip Themselves Who

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Reality Apprehension More Than Often Us Suffer Alarm Things Harm

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Great Genius Madness Great Genius Some Touch Without Existed Ever

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution. Marcus Aurelius

Life Wise Fool Problem Life Is A Solution

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else. Marcus Aurelius

Death Nature Welcome Else Despise Wills Like

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers. Marcus Aurelius

More Lazy Perhaps Readers None Truly Than Ignorant Your Everlasting

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured. Marcus Tullius Cicero

Blessing Age Old Old Age Harvest Secured Recollection Abundance

What is permissible is not always honorable. Marcus Tullius Cicero

Honorable Always Permissible

There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled. Ovid

Alcohol Distilled More Nap Stimulation Than Refreshment Even Ever

Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love. Ovid

Love Happy Courage Those Dare Courageously Who Defend

Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt. Phaedrus

Destruction Others Those Plot Attempt Perish Often Who

The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return to better thinking. Phaedrus

Learning Better Sometimes Mind Thinking Ought Return May

I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent. Publilius Syrus

Regret Silent Never Spoken Been Often

When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad. Tacitus

Good Envy Men Everything Bad Whether Full Disparage

Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame. Tertullian

Nature Fear Evil Every Shame Either

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts. Virgil

Man Woman World Cares Able About Counts Knows Very Little

It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task. Virgil

Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth. Horace

Future Day Gift Whatever Inquire Take Cease Store Forth Brings