Tuesday, 31 March 2020

Roman Thoughts.

The clever ancients.

" If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. "
Marcus Tullius Cicero
" We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing. "
Seneca
" I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone. "
Scipio Africanus
" Truth is the daughter of time. "
Aulus Gellius
" Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others. "
Marcus Tullius Cicero
" Hasten slowly. "
Augustus
" No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars. "
Quintus Ennius
" They can conquer who believe they can. "
Virgil
" Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant. "
Horace
" Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true. "
Julius Caesar
" The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied. "
Lucretius

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