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01c. 32 AD

A favour does not consist in the service done, but in the spirit of the man who confers it.

Seneca / quote

02c. 32 AD

A well-governed appetite is a great part of liberty.

Seneca / quote

03c. 75 BC

Cultivation is as necessary to the mind as food to the body.

Cicero / quote

04c. 32 AD

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

Seneca / quote

05c. 75 BC

Elocution is the adjustment of apt words and sentiments to the subject in debate.

Cicero / quote

06c. 75 BC

Every generous action loves the public view, yet no theatre for virtue is equal to a consciousness of it.

Cicero / quote

07c. 32 AD

Every one would rather believe than exercise his own judgment.

Seneca / quote

08c. 32 AD

Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.

Seneca / quote

09c. 75 BC

Exile is terrible to those who have, as it were, a circumscribed habitation; but not to those who look upon the whole globe as one city.

Cicero / quote

10c. 32 AD

Eyes will not see when the heart wishes them to be blind; desire conceals truth as darkness does the earth.

Seneca / quote

11c. 75 BC

Fortitude is to be seen in toils and dangers; temperance in the denial of sensual pleasures; prudence in the choice between good and evil; justice in awarding to every one his due.

Cicero / quote

12c. 75 BC

Fortune favours the brave, as the old proverb says, but forethought much more.

Cicero / quote

13c. 75 BC

Glory is the unanimous praise of good men.

Cicero / quote

14c. 75 BC

Gone for ever is virtue, once so prevalent in the state, when men deem a mischievous citizen worse than its bitterest enemy, and punish him with severer penalties.

Cicero / quote

15c. 32 AD

Great is he who enjoys his earthenware as if it were plate, and not less great the man to whom all his plate is no more than earthenware.

Seneca / quote

16c. 32 AD

Great men often rejoice at crosses of fortune, just as brave soldiers do at wars.

Seneca / quote

17c. 32 AD

Happy is the man who can endure the highest and the lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.

Seneca / quote

18c. 75 BC

He is an eloquent man who can speak of low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.

Cicero / quote

19c. 32 AD

He is ungrateful who denies a benefit; he is ungrateful who hides it; he is ungrateful who does not return it; he, most of all, who has forgotten it.

Seneca / quote

20c. 75 BC

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

Cicero / quote

21c. 75 BC

He ought to remember benefits on whom they are conferred; he who confers them ought not to mention them.

Cicero / quote

22c. 32 AD

He that is a friend to himself is a friend to all men.

Seneca / quote

23c. 32 AD

Human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.

Seneca / quote

24c. 75 BC

It is a grave offence to bind a Roman citizen, a crime to flog him, almost the act of a parricide to put him to death; what shall I call crucifying him? Language worthy of such an enormity it is impossible to find.

Cicero / quote