Month: February 2022

It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured. – Tacitus, 1st Century AD

To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire, and where they make a desert, they call it peace. – Tacitus, 1st Century AD

I begin to speak only when I’m certain what I’ll say isn’t better left unsaid. – Cato the Younger, 1st Century BC

Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise. – Cato the Elder, 2nd Century BC

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow. – Cicero, 1st Century BC

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. – Cicero, 1st Century BC

A room without books is like a body without a soul. – Cicero, 1st Century BC

The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is. – Desiderius Erasmus, 16th Century AD

When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes. – Desiderius Erasmus, 16th Century AD

In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. – Desiderius Erasmus, 16th Century AD