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01c. 75 BC

It is easier for a wit to keep fire in his mouth, than to hold in a witty saying that he is burning to tell.

Cicero / quote

02c. 75 BC

It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life.

Cicero / quote

03c. 32 AD

It was the wisdom of the ancients to regard the most useful as the most illustrious.

Seneca / quote

04c. 75 BC

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving no offence.

Cicero / quote

05c. 32 AD

Let us make haste to live, since every day to a wise man is a new life.

Seneca / quote

06c. 32 AD

Levity of behaviour is the bane of all that is good and virtuous.

Seneca / quote

07c. 75 BC

Life is to be considered happy, not in warding off evil, but in the acquisition of good: and this we should seek for by employment of some kind or by reflection.

Cicero / quote

08c. 75 BC

No man can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil of life; nor temperate, who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero / quote

09c. 32 AD

No man is nobler born than another, unless he is born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition.

Seneca / quote

10c. 75 BC

No man should be so much taken up in the search of truth, as thereby to neglect the more necessary duties of active life.

Cicero / quote

11c. 32 AD

No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.

Seneca / quote

12c. 75 BC

No theatre for virtue is equal to the consciousness of it.

Cicero / quote

13c. 32 AD

Not to return one good office for another is inhuman; but to return evil for good is diabolical.

Seneca / quote

14c. 75 BC

Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that it is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Cicero / quote

15c. 32 AD

Philosophy does not regard pedigree; she did not receive Plato as a noble, but she made him so.

Seneca / quote

16c. 75 BC

Philosophy, rightly defined, is simply the love of wisdom.

Cicero / quote

17c. 32 AD

Remark how many are better off than you are; consider how many are worse.

Seneca / quote

18c. 75 BC

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

Cicero / quote

19c. 32 AD

So live with men, as if God saw you; so speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca / quote

20c. 75 BC

Superstition is an unreasoning fear of God; religion consists in the pious worship of the gods.

Cicero / quote

21c. 75 BC

That elevation of mind which we see in moments of peril, if it is uncontrolled by justice, and strives only for its own advantage, becomes a crime.

Cicero / quote

22c. 75 BC

The eyes being in the highest part, hold the post of sentinels.

Cicero / quote

23c. 32 AD

The great felicity of life is to be without perturbation.

Seneca / quote

24c. 75 BC

The man who is always fortunate cannot easily have a great reverence for virtue.

Cicero / quote