Roman Philosopher Quotes

#1. Throughout the whole of life one must continue to learn to live and what will amaze you even more, throughout life you must learn to die. Seneca (Roman philosopher)

Seneca The Younger

#2. "When we do not know what harbor we are making for," the Roman philosopher Seneca wrote, "no wind is the right wind." Persons have vision only when they have a dream that drives them on.

Joan D. Chittister

#3. Please tell me I'm not the only one who finds it endearing and encouraging that a legendary Roman philosopher had to reassure himself that it's okay not to be Plato.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#4. As a Roman philosopher, Cicero, said of him a few hundred years later, Socrates 'called philosophy down from the sky and established her in the towns and introduced her into homes and forced her to investigate life, ethics, good and evil.

Jostein Gaarder

#5. I met an agent through my modeling agency who encouraged me to go out and audition for sitcoms, and I was absolutely petrified because I had no desire to do it.

Robin Wright

#6. Like most parents, I want everything for my kids that I didn't have. But I don't intend to spoil them. I just enjoy everything that comes naturally with parenthood.

Curtis Joseph

#7. Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.

Edward Gibbon

#8. Now c'mon - if we die, we die cool.

Atsushi Ohkubo

#9. The Roman politician and philosopher Cicero once said: 'Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labours of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

Ha-Joon Chang

#10. The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful.

Edward Gibbon

#11. I sat there frozen, wondering if this icy truth could ever melt, if the madness of the world could ever be cured

David Arnold

#12. Never do an evil act just because it is trivial; never leave a good act undone just because it's small.

Liu Bei

#13. A flower blooms to reveal her beauty just to express her gratitude for all the life, love, and light.

Debasish Mridha

#14. Evanescent like ice that is melting away;

Lao-Tzu

#15. Take from thy neighbour that which is not yours and thou shalt reap the consequences for all eternity

Kevin Marsh

#16. In the entire first Christian century Jesus is not mentioned by a single Greek or Roman historian, religion scholar, politician, philosopher or poet. His name never occurs in a single inscription, and it is never found in a single piece of private correspondence. Zero! Zip references!

Bart D. Ehrman

#17. Our kingdom is our life, and our life is our kingdom. We are all meant to rule from a glorious place. When God is on the throne, then so are we. When God is in exile, our lands are at war and our kingdoms are in chaos.

Marianne Williamson

#18. The whole Poghril tribe had died out from famine except for one last man who died of cholesterol poisoning some weeks later.

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