150 quotes found
Poet (43 BC – AD 17/18) · Roman
Roman poet (43 BC – AD 17/18)
“Dont be selfish in life”
“Don’t be selfish in life”
“Every lover is a soldier.”
“Beauty is a fragile gift.”
“Never rate yourself too low”
“There is not a moment in which God does not present Himself under the cover of some pain to be endured, of some consolation to be enjoyed, or of some duty to be performed. All that takes place with...”
“Time will make it worse! You're...the other half of his soul. He's never going to get over you. And no matter how much you hope that you will... you'll never get over him. You're going to wake up o...”
“Although the gods were in the distant skies,Pythagoras drew near them with his mind;what nature had denied to human sight,he saw with his intellect, his mental eye.When he, with reason and tenaciou...”
“I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.”
“It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so”
“Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.”
“Self-destructive behaviors do not exist because there is a force within us that tries to hasten our return to an inorganic state”
“I had seen enough of Western courtship rituals to know European families did little to identify, research and arrange suitable marriages. Instead, to catch the attention of potential partners, West...”
“Fas est ab hoste doceri.One should learn even from one's enemies.”
“Saepe creat molles aspera spina rosas" - "Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses”
“Offering care means being a companion, not a superior. It doesnt matter whether the person we are caring for is experiencing cancer, the flu, dementia, or grief.If you are a doctor or surgeon, your...”
“Even though people experiencing dementia become unable to recount what has just happened, they still go through the experienceeven without recall. The psychological present lasts about three second...”
“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much”
“Providence is wiser than you, and you may be confident it has suited all things better to your eternal good than you could do had you been left to your own option.”
“This is what we are for, Alin, the older guardsman said, turning to his companion. Adare had never heard anyone use Birchs first name. She hadnt even known it herself. Our lives for hers. If she re...”
“God teaches the soul by pains and obstacles, not by ideas.”
“As wave is driven by wave And each, pursued, pursues the wave ahead, So time flies on and follows, flies, and follows, Always, for ever and new. What was before Is left behind; what never was is no...”
“The nearer a soul is to God, the more it deserves our esteem; the closer the ties that bit it to us, the more sensible is our love for it, and the more whole-hearted should be the devotion we show ...”
“Oh for Shaels sweet sake, girl, you think you can rule an empire without lying? You think your father didnt lie? Or his father? Or any of your goldy-eyed great-great-founders of Annur? Its built in...”
“Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all."Be patient and tough; one day this pain will be useful to you.”