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Classical antiquity92 quotes
I came, I saw, I conquered. — Julius Caesar · 46 BCCui bono? — Cicero · 52 BCEvery instant of time is a pinprick of eternity. — Marcus Aurelius · 180Who benefits? — Lucius Cassius Longinus Ravilla · 80 BCBe like a headland of rock on which the waves break incessantly: but it stands fast and around it the seething of the waters sinks to rest. — Marcus Aurelius · 180Only two things does he anxiously wish for-bread and circuses. — Juvenal · 127All 92 quotes →Middle Ages15 quotes
Therefore it is necessary to arrive at a prime mover, put in motion by no other; and this everyone understands to be God. — St. Thomas Aquinas · 1265O happy race of mortals, if your hearts are ruled, as is the universe, by Love! — Boethius · 523If you expect a physician to help you, you must lay bare your wound. — Boethius · 523If all evil were prevented, much good would be absent from the universe. A lion would cease to live, if there were no slaying of animals; and there would be no patience of martyrs if there were no tyrannical persecution. — St. Thomas Aquinas · 1265Who hath so entire happiness that he is not in some part offended with the condition of his estate? — Boethius · 524Nothing is miserable but what is thought so, and contrariwise, every estate is happy if he that bears it be content. — Boethius · 523All 15 quotes →