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I have no taste for corruptible food nor for the pleasures of this life. I desire the Bread of God, which is the Flesh of Jesus Christ, who was of the seed of David, and for drink I desire His Blood, which is love incorruptible.
Ignatius of Antioch
Life
Love
God
Food
Christ
Pleasures
Seed
Drink
David
His
Nor
Blood
Taste
Bread
Which
Flesh
Who
Jesus
Jesus Christ
Desire
Incorruptible
All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.
Livy
Man
Will
Distinct
Haste
All Things
Hurry
Clear
Blind
Does
Who
Things
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Mind
Difficulties
Does
Labor
Body
Strengthen
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
You
Pilot
Know
Learn
Storm
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
You
Long
Main
Main Thing
Well
How
Lived
Thing
The things hardest to bear are sweetest to remember.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Remember
Bear
Sweetest
Hardest
Things
What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.
Marcus Aurelius
Fly
Earth
Springs
Native
Again
Seat
Things
Be content to seem what you really are.
Marcus Aurelius
You
Seem
Content
Really
Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
Marcus Aurelius
Genius
Understanding
Imagination
Aptitude
Rarely
Coming
Often
Inherited
Reason
Found
What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Man
Generation
Valuable
State
Rising
More
Employment
Than
Who
Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Education
Food
Mind
Cultivation
Body
Necessary
Peace is liberty in tranquillity.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Peace
Liberty
Tranquillity
Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.
Ovid
You
Will
Pool
Hook
Cast
Powerful
Always
Least
Fish
Expect
Where
Your
Chance
Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.
Ovid
Love
Dignity
Abode
Share
Same
Cannot
The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness.
Ovid
Values
Crowd
Vulgar
According
Friends
Usefulness
Courage in danger is half the battle.
Plautus
Veterans Day
Courage
Battle
Half
Danger
Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.
Plautus
Best
Patience
Trouble
Every
Remedy
Let deeds match words.
Plautus
Wisdom
Words
Match
Deeds
Your wealth is where your friends are.
Plautus
Wealth
Friends
Where
Your
Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
Pliny the Elder
Grief
Fear
Apprehension
Possibly
Only
Know
None
Limits
May
Whereas
Happen
Happened
Grieve
Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
Sallust
Liberty
Men
Wish
Master
Few
Only
Most
Few Men
Just
Desire
It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.
Sallust
Nature
Law
Coward
Victory
Reputation
Human Nature
Defeat
His
Prowess
Brave
May
Human
While
Boast
Even
It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.
Tiberius
Good
Sheep
Duty
Skin
Shepherd
His
Them
Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.
Virgil
Strength
Overcome
Every
Calamity
Endurance
Trust not too much to appearances.
Virgil
Trust
Too Much
Too
Much
Appearances
No man pleases by silence; many I please by speaking briefly.
Ausonius
Silence
Man
Please
Pleases
Speaking
Many
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