150 quotes found
Poet (43 BC – AD 17/18) · Roman
Roman poet (43 BC – AD 17/18)
“Time is generally the best doctor.”
“Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.”
“Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.”
“Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.”
“Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.”
“Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.”
“Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.”
“Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.”
“Beauty is a fragile gift.”
“First appearance deceives many.”
“Fair peace becomes men ferocious anger belongs to beasts. ”
“Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.”
“Habits change into character.”
“He loved a lifeless thing and he was utterly and hopelessly wretched.”
“The particulars of life do not matter to the artist”
“Anything cracked will shatter at a touch.”
“Every lover is a soldier.”
“The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.”
“What an abundant harvest has been collected in autumn! The earth has now fulfilled its design for this year, and is going to repose for a short time. Thus nature is continually employed during the ...”
“There is no such thing as pure pleasure some anxiety always goes with it.”