The prophets, who were very many, proclaim and declare the one God; for, being filled with the inspi...
LACTANTIUS Therefore, if the gods are immortal and eternal, what need is there of the other sex, when they them...
LACTANTIUS Homer was able to give us no information relating to the truth, for he wrote of human rather than di...
LACTANTIUS But some one will say that this supreme Being, who made all things, and those also who conferred on ...
LACTANTIUS Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them ...
LACTANTIUS Therefore God is one, if that which admits of so great power can be nothing else: and yet those who ...
LACTANTIUS There is no one, who possesses intelligence and uses reflection, who does not understand that it is ...
LACTANTIUS Let us come to the philosophers, whose authority is of greater weight, and their judgment more to be...
LACTANTIUS For they, the philosophers, were considered teachers of right living, which is far more excellent, s...
LACTANTIUS For if the honour paid to Him is shared by others, He altogether ceases to be worshipped, since His ...
LACTANTIUS For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of sufferin...
LACTANTIUS Mars, when guilty of homicide, and set free from the charge of murder by the Athenians through favou...
LACTANTIUS But God, who is the Eternal Mind, is undoubtedly of excellence, complete and perfect in every part.
LACTANTIUS Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enum...
LACTANTIUS But God, who is immortal, has no need of difference of sex, nor of succession.
LACTANTIUS Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.
LACTANTIUS Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.
LACTANTIUS Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.
LACTANTIUS It is possible that Mount Olympus may have supplied the poets with the hint for saying that Jupiter ...
LACTANTIUS The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true.
LACTANTIUS When their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had mad...
LACTANTIUS The poets, therefore, however much they adorned the gods in their poems, and amplified their exploit...
LACTANTIUS Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age
LACTANTIUS I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.
LUCIUS C. FALKLAND When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change.
LUCIUS C. FALKLAND Memory moderates prosperity, decreases adversity, controls youth and delights old age.
LACTANTIUS FIRMIANUS Memory moderates prosperity, decreases adversity, controls youth and delights old age.
LACTANTIUS FIRMIANUS Let them hate so long as they fear.
LUCIUS ACCIUS Let them hate, so long as they fear.
LUCIUS ACCIUS Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.
LUCIUS ACCIUS Let them hate, so long as they fear. [Lat., Oderint, dum metuant.]
LUCIUS ACCIUS Let them hate so long as they fear.
(Oderint Dum Metuant)
LUCIUS ACCIUS A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.
LUCIUS ACCIUS Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat.
(Indeed, wretched the man whose fame mak...
LUCIUS ACCIUS It was just settling in that I was there for the hurricane, and then I came here. Now it seems like ...
ARIEL LUCIUS The bottom line is, if the service pay works, the constable with 15 years' service won't be too worr...
LUCIUS THOMAS I had promised on taking office that I would see my members - the rank and file mostly. I make sure ...
LUCIUS THOMAS It is not something that one can ever forget.
LUCIUS THOMAS We don't want to get caught out there trying to get gas.
LUCIUS MONROE When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change.
LUCIUS CARY New York... Babylon-on-the-Hudson, sinful, extravagant, full of the nervous hilarity of the doomed.
LUCIUS BEEBE Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Every guilty person is his own hangman.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA He who is brave is free.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA All art is but imitation of nature.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA As long as you live, keep learning how to live.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA All cruelty springs from weakness.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their h...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thun...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man... It is more powerful than exte...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which i...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courag...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and comma...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many a...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA While we are postponing, life speeds by.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA No man was ever wise by chance.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passi...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed ...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they a...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA If you wished to be loved, love.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA The wish for healing has always been half of health.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but whe...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no gra...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze....
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than rea...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one c...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting e...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender ...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Malice drinks one half of its own poison.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of app...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA A great mind becomes a great fortune.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in ex...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs n...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in a firmness of mind and mastery of app...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Every sin is the result of a collaboration.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then ...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA No one is laughable who laughs at himself.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both exist...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the pow...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy lif...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA You cease to be afraid when you cease to hope; for hope is accompanied by fear.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA He who has great power should use it lightly.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part cowar...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes uns...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA When prizes go to the wicked it is hard for any man to be good without reward.
LUCIUS MARCIUS PHILIPPUS Wealth is the slave of wise man. The master of a fool.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA That moderation which nature prescribes, which limits our desires by resources restricted to our nee...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA To wish to progress is the largest part of progress.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA While we are postponing life speeds up.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.
LUCIUS ACCIUS TELEPHUS The way is long if one follows precepts, but short... if one follows patterns.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own re...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA One must steer, not talk.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one ...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA In war there is no prize for runner-up.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.
LUCIUS ACCIUS TELEPHUS Let them hate, so long as they fear.
LUCIUS ACCIUS TELEPHUS The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA For greed all nature is too little.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA What is truth" I was asked. "Truth is neither good nor bad. Neither evil nor pure. It just is." That...
C. JOYBELL C. There is no worse discriminator than envy. No worse traitor than envy. Even those who are seemingly ...
C. JOYBELL C. The shame and the downfall of a modern materialistic society is her inability to treasure, care for,...
C. JOYBELL C. Pink is a beautiful color, because it is one of the colors that the sun makes at twilight and in the...
C. JOYBELL C. The celebrated Galen said that employment was nature's physician. It is indeed so important to hap...
C C COLTON There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest ma...
C C COLTON True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
C. C. COLTON There are types of people who want to have leverage over other people's lives. For no other reason t...
C. JOYBELL C. There are those whose primary ability is to spin wheels of manipulation. It is their second skin and...
C. JOYBELL C. The goodness of a person is normally judged based upon how they act towards those whom they consider...
C. JOYBELL C. Just because a person is attractive/beautiful, this does not mean it is okay to villainize them. We ...
C. JOYBELL C. What kind of a world do we live in, when the good are taken advantage of by the bad, while the bad h...
C. JOYBELL C. I think that the best thing we can do for our children is to allow them to do things for themselves,...
C. JOYBELL C. Man is not defiled by his impurities. It is the other man pointing out his impurities to him, whom h...
C. JOYBELL C. As you go about your daily life, you will encounter many lemons. Sour expressions, sour attitudes, s...
C. JOYBELL C. When I was a little girl, everything in the world fell into either of these two categories: wrong or...
C. JOYBELL C. Some people come and go and are forgotten. But there are other people who share a part in our destin...
C. JOYBELL C. I have met so many heartbroken men. It's a catastrophe. Women are easily overcome by the process tha...
C. JOYBELL C. For some people, “the point of no return” begins at the very moment their souls become aware of ...
C. JOYBELL C. Love is like a good cake; you never know when it's coming, but you'd better eat it when it does!
C. JOYBELL C. Maybe we shouldn't be looking for love. Maybe we should be looking for a person. Because maybe you c...
C. JOYBELL C. You can run away from yourself so often, and so much, just because the broken pieces of you cut your...
C. JOYBELL C. Sometimes the things that are felt the most are expressed between two souls over the distance and ov...
C. JOYBELL C.