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- Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD), Meditations
- Out of the frying pan into the fire.
- Quintus Septimius Tertullianus (160 AD - 230 AD), De Carne Christi
- When you are at Rome live in the Roman style; when you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere.
- Saint Ambrose (339 AD - 397 AD), Taylor
- 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
- An unstable pilot steers a leaking ship, and the blind is leading the blind straight to the pit. The ruler is like the ruled.
- Saint Jerome (374 AD - 419 AD), Letter
- No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
- Saint Jerome (374 AD - 419 AD), Letter
- The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
- Saint Jerome (374 AD - 419 AD), Letter
- The scars of others should teach us caution.
- Saint Jerome (374 AD - 419 AD), Letter
- When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
- Saint Jerome (374 AD - 419 AD), Letter
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