Sextus Quotes

#1. It is certain that this is not only good which the Almighty has done, but that it is best; He hath reckoned all your steps to heaven. - Author: Samuel Rutherford

#2. Anyone who is an enemy of mine, let him love women, but let he who is my friend rejoice in men. - Author: Sextus Propertius

#3. If the gods chose Sextus as King of Rome, the worst possible evil will befall it - Author: Aziz Hamza

#4. Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away. - Author: Sextus Propertius

#5. By skepticism ... we arrive first at suspension of judgment, and second at freedom from disturbance. - Author: Sextus Empiricus

#6. By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint. - Author: Sextus Propertius

#7. Among absent lovers, ardor always fares better. - Author: Sextus Propertius

#8. I have learned that the state of Israel cannot be ruled in our generation without deceit and adventurism. These are historical facts that cannot be altered. - Author: Moshe Sharett

#9. No rival will steal away my sure love; that glory will be my gray hair. - Author: Sextus Propertius

#10. Or, as Sextus, the ancient Pythagorian philosopher, said, "The wise man is always similar to himself." - - Author: Elizabeth Gilbert

#11. Even a faithful mistress can be bent by constant threats. - Author: Sextus Propertius

#12. Guard yourself from lying; there is he who deceives and there is he who is deceived. - Author: Sextus Empiricus

#13. Plato, quite decadently, wore an earring while young. - Author: Sextus Empiricus

#14. When Marcus Crassus had constructed a ditch around the forces of Spartacus, the latter at night filled it with the boddies of prisoners and cattle that he had slain, and thus marched across it. - Author: Sextus Julius Frontinus

#15. Love can be put off, never abandoned. - Author: Sextus Propertius

#16. It is important to remember all true change begins at the margins and moves toward the center. This does not make the climate change movement marginal, it makes it muscular, organic, with a true movement toward the center. - Author: Terry Tempest Williams

#17. Skepticism relieved two terrible diseases that afflicted mankind: anxiety and dogmatism. - Author: Sextus Empiricus

#18. Not only the bull attacks his enemies with curved horn, but also the sheep, when harmed fights back. - Author: Sextus Propertius

#19. The defence and air defence ministers were both replaced and more than 2,000 officers lost their jobs. - Author: Mathias Rust

#20. The meaning of culture is nothing less than the conduct of life itself, fortified, thickened, made more crafty and subtle, by contact with books and with art. - Author: John Cowper Powys

#21. Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough. - Author: Sextus Propertius

#22. Afflicted by love's madness all are blind. - Author: Sextus Propertius

#23. The Mode of circular reasoning is the form used when the proof itself which ought to establish the matter of inquiry requires confirmation derived from the matter; in this case, being unable to assume either in order to establish the other, we suspend judgement about both. - Author: Sextus Empiricus

#24. Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent. - Author: Sextus Propertius

#25. Let each man pass his days in that wherein his skill is greatest. - Author: Sextus Propertius

#26. Age makes all things greater after their death; a name comes to the tongue easier from the grave. - Author: Sextus Propertius

#27. Love never offers to anyone wings so easy that he does not hold him back with his other hand. - Author: Sextus Propertius

#28. Tell me who is able to keep his bed chaste, or which goddess is able to live with one god alone? - Author: Sextus Propertius

#29. The skeptic, being a lover of his kind, desires to cure by speech, as best he can, the self-conceit and rashness of the dogmatists. - Author: Sextus Empiricus

#30. To every argument an equal argument is opposed, - Author: Sextus Empiricus