Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honourable. Seneca Roman dramatist, philosopher, & politician (5 BC - 65 AD) Let your desires be ruled by reason.<br> (Appetitus Rationi Pareat) Cicero Roman author, orator, & politician (106 BC - 43 BC) By courage I repel adversity.<br> (Adversa Virtute Repello) Anonymous May no portent of evil be attached to the words I say. Anonymous The man who has received a benefit ought always to remember it, but he who has granted it ought to forget the fact at once. Demosthenes Greek orator & politician in Athens (384 BC - 322 BC) The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage. Thucydides Greek historian (471 BC - 400 BC) The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return the better to thinking. Phaedrus Roman author of fables (15 BC - 50 AD) He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss. Niccolo Machiavelli Italian dramatist, historian, & philosopher (1469 - 1527) First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak. Epictetus Roman (Greek-born) slave & Stoic philosopher (55 AD - 135 AD) To harken to evil conversation is the road to wickedness.. (Pravis Assuescere Sermonibus Est Via Ad Rem Ipsam) Anonymous |