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One universe made up of all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason, shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Meditations · 180

★ 1.3

Letter · Philosophical literature

44 BC

★ 1.3

Indeed, revenge is always the pleasure of a paltry, feeble, tiny mind.

Satires · 127

★ 1.3

It's difficult not to write satire.

Satires · 127

★ 1.3

Remember that no man loses other life than that which he lives, nor lives other than that which he loses.

Meditations · 180

★ 1.3

In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present: "I am rising to a man's work."

Law: an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.

Meditations · 180

★ 1.3

Religious literature

Sometimes I do what I want to do. The rest of the time, I do what I have to.

Summa Theologicae · 1273

★ 1.4

Film · Historical drama (film) · Drama (film) · Historical drama · Drama

Nothing to my way of thinking is a better proof of a well-ordered mind than a man's ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in their own company.

Gladiator · 2000

★ 1.9

Letter · Philosophical literature

A farm is like a man-however great the income, if there is extravagance but little is left.

★ 1.9

Essay

Cato the Elder

De Agricultura · 160 BC

★ 2.0

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life, and brings us tidings of antiquity.

There exists a law, inborn of our hearts by natural intuition, if our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.

On Oratory · 55 BC

★ 2.0

Speech

The longest part of the journey is said to be the passing of the gate.

52 BC

★ 2.0

Marcus Terentius Varro

27 BC

★ 2.0

You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

★ 2.0

Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.

Three things are necessary for man to be saved: knowledge of what is to be believed, knowledge of what is to be desired, and knowledge of what is to be done.

★ 2.0

Religious literature

1273

★ 2.0

It was ordained at the beginning of the world that certain signs should prefigure certain events.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

Concerning Divination · 44 BC

★ 2.1

Essay · Philosophical literature

Whom they have injured they also hate.

★ 2.1

Essay · Philosophical literature

On Anger · 45

★ 2.1

It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.

★ 2.1

Man is a reasoning animal.

The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.

★ 2.1

Play

★ 2.1

What place can be left for random action, when God constraineth all things to order?

The Consolation of Philosophy · 523

★ 2.1

By first recognizing false goods, you begin to escape the burden of their influence; then afterwards true goods may gain possession of your spirit.

Everything I have written seems like straw by comparison with what I have seen and what has been revealed to me.

The Consolation of Philosophy · 523

★ 2.1

The thing which is the most outstanding and chiefly to be desired by all healthy and good and well-off persons, is leisure with honor.

1273

★ 2.1

Speech

Pro Sestio · 56 BC

★ 2.2

There were poets before Homer.

Philosophical dialogue · Philosophical literature

Brutus · 46 BC

★ 2.2

There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.

On Divination · 44 BC

★ 2.2

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

On Old Age · 44 BC

★ 2.2

Life is long if you know how to use it.

On the Shortness of Life · 49

★ 2.2

No one ever suddenly became depraved.

Satires · 127

★ 2.2

The less we indulge our pleasures the more we enjoy them.

Satires · 127

★ 2.2

Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle.

Meditations · 180

★ 2.2

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

Meditations · 180

★ 2.2

For he that is fallen low did never firmly stand.

The Consolation of Philosophy · 523

★ 2.2

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

On Friendship · 44 BC

★ 2.3

It is man's peculiar duty to love even those who wrong him.

Meditations · 180

★ 2.3

If not becoming, don’t do it. If not true, don’t say it. Let these be your fixed principles.

Meditations · 180

★ 2.3

Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.

Meditations · 180

★ 2.3

Uncomplicate yourself.

Whatever we do or suffer for a friend is pleasant, because love is the principal cause of pleasure.

Meditations · 180

★ 2.3

Religious literature

Private property is a natural fruit of labor, a product of intense activity of man, acquired trough his energetic determination to ensure and develop with his own strength his own existence and that of his family, and to create for himself and his own an existence of just freedom, not only economic, but also political, cultural and religious.

1265

★ 2.3

Radio broadcast · Speech

Pope Pius XII

1944

★ 3.5

Poem · Historical literature

Is the dwelling place of God anywhere but in the earth and sea, the air and sky, and virtue? Why seek we further for deities? Whatever you see, whatever you touch, that is Jupiter.

Lucan

Pharsalia · 65

★ 3.5

It was divine nature which gave us the country, and man's skill that built the cities.

Marcus Terentius Varro

27 BC

★ 3.6

We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the much vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples?

★ 3.6

Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long.

★ 3.6

No person has the power to have everything they want, but it is in their power not to want what they don’t have, and to cheerfully put to good use what they do have.

★ 3.6

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

★ 3.7

You can take comfort in the likelihood that what is now making you miserable will also pass away.

When a man sees his end, he wants to know there was some purpose to his life.

The Consolation of Philosophy · 523

★ 3.7

Film · Historical drama (film) · Drama (film) · Historical drama · Drama

For there is nothing that happens on earth that is more welcome to that supreme God who rules the whole universe than the institutions and congregations of men united by a sense of right, which are called states.

Gladiator · 2000

★ 3.7

Dialogue · Political literature

On the Commonwealth · 51 BC

★ 3.8

To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child.

46 BC

★ 3.8

For of all gainful professions, nothing is better, nothing more pleasing, nothing more delightful, nothing better becomes a well-bred man than agriculture.

Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.

On Duties · 44 BC

★ 3.8

Essay

★ 3.8

The best ideas are common property.

★ 3.8

All art is but imitation of nature.

★ 3.8

A great pilot can sail even when his canvas is rent.

★ 3.8

I was shipwrecked before I got on board.

All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.

★ 3.8

Poem · Satire