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- You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD), Meditations
- Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD), Meditations
- Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD), Meditations
- In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present: 'I am rising to a man's work.'
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD), Meditations
- Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD), Meditations
- Very little is needed to make a happy life.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD), Meditations
- Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
- Quintus Septimius Tertullianus (160 AD - 230 AD), Adversus Valentinianos
- Out of the frying pan into the fire.
- Quintus Septimius Tertullianus (160 AD - 230 AD), De Carne Christi
- The friendship that can cease has never been real.
- Saint Jerome (374 AD - 419 AD), Letter
- The fact is that my native land is a prey to barbarism, that in it men's only God is their belly, that they live only for the present, and that the richer a man is the holier he is held to be.
- Saint Jerome (374 AD - 419 AD), Letter
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