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Marcus Aurelius28 quotes
Every instant of time is a pinprick of eternity. — Marcus Aurelius · 180Be 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 · 180Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one. — Marcus Aurelius · 180What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee. — Marcus Aurelius · 180Mankind have been created for the sake of one another. — Marcus Aurelius · 180Love the little trade which you have learned, and be content with it. — Marcus Aurelius · 180All 28 quotes →Seneca21 quotes
If a person knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable. — Seneca · 65It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable. — Seneca · 58The best ideas are common property. — Seneca · 65All art is but imitation of nature. — Seneca · 65A great pilot can sail even when his canvas is rent. — Seneca · 65I was shipwrecked before I got on board. — Seneca · 65All 21 quotes →Boethius9 quotes
O 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 · 523Who 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 · 523Wherefore not without cause has one of your own followers asked, "If God is, whence come evil things? If He is not, whence come good?" — Boethius · 523You can take comfort in the likelihood that what is now making you miserable will also pass away. — Boethius · 523All 9 quotes →Julius Caesar4 quotes
I came, I saw, I conquered. — Julius Caesar · 46 BCThe die is cast. — Julius Caesar · 49 BCMen are nearly always willing to believe what they wish. — Julius Caesar · 49 BCGaul as a whole is divided into three parts. — Julius Caesar · 49 BCCaesar Augustus1 quote
I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble. — Caesar Augustus · 121Lucan1 quote
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 · 65Marcus Licinus Crassus1 quote
Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly. — Marcus Licinus Crassus · 119Pope Pius XII1 quote
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. — Pope Pius XII · 1944