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"To live happily is an inward power of the soul."

~Marcus Aurelius
(161—180 CE)

"Ego me bene habeo."
With me all is well.

last words

~Sextus Afranius Burrus

"Et tu, Brute?"
Even you, Brutus?

Supposed last words

" Καί συ, τέκνον; "
Even you, son?

last words

~C. (Gaius) Iulius Caesar

"Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem."
It is difficult to suddenly give up a long love.

"Odi et amo."
I hate... and I love.

"Risu inepto res ineptior nulla est."
There is nothing so foolish as a foolish laugh.

~C. (Gaius) Valerius Catullus
poet (ca. 84—54 BCE)

"Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book."

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."

"Saepe ne utile quidem est scire quid futurum sit."
Often it is not even advantageous to know what will be.

~Marcus Tullius Cicero
(ca. 106—43 BCE)

"Spira, Spera"
Live, Hope

~Latin saying

"What can give us surer knowledge than our senses? With what else can we better distinguish the true from the false?"

~Lucretius

"Amor tussisque non celantur."
Love, like a cough, is not concealed.

"Ars est celare artem."
Tis art, to conceal art.

~Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid)
(43—ca. 18 BCE)

"Carpamus dulcia; post enim mortem cinis et fabula fies."
Seize that which is sweet; for after death dogs and lies feast.

~Perseus

"Nobody is guilty by fate."

"Oedipus"

"We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing."

"It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have."

"We learn not in school, but in life."

"I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling."

"The fates lead him who will — him who won't they drag."

"This is the reason we cannot complain of life: it keeps no one against his will."

"No man ever became wise by chance."

"It is extreme evil to depart from the company of the living before you die."

"It's a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none."

"Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue."

"All art is but imitation of nature."

"Non ille diu vixit, sed diu fuit."
He did not live a long time, but he lasted a long time.

"Ante senectutem curavi ut bene virerem; in senectute curo ut bene moriar."
Before old age I gave care to living a good life; in old age I give care to dying well.

"Hesitation is the best cure for anger."

"Quaedam non iura scripta sed omnibus scriptis certiora sunt."
Some laws are unwritten, but they are better established than those which are.

"Aliquando et insanire iucundum est."
Tis sometimes pleasant even to act as a madman.

"Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit."
There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

"De Tranquillitate Animi"

~Lucius Annaeus Seneca
(ca. 4 BCE—65 CE)

"It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well."

"Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm."

"Amare et sapere vix deo conceditur."
Even a god finds it difficult to both love and be wise at once.

~Publius Syrus

"Amantium irae amoris integratio'st."
The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.

"Andria"

~Publius Terentius Afer (Terence)
(ca. 185—159 BCE)

"Cras amet qui numquam amavit quique amavit cras amet."
Let him love tomorrow who has never loved. And let he who has, love tomorrow.

~Pervigilium Veneris

"Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit."
Perhaps one day even this will be pleasant to remember.

~Publius Vergilius Maro (Vergil)

"Vae puto deus fio."
Alas, I think I am becoming a god.

last words

~Imperator Caesar Titus Flavius Sabinus Vespasianus Augustus (Vespasian)

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