“To be able to say how much you love is to love but little.” Petrarch “Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature’s delight.” Marcus Aurelius “Saying is one thing, doing is another.” Montaigne “The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.” Marcus Aurelius “There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.” Cicero “A good disposition is a virtue in itself.” Ovid “Lust for power is the most flagrant of all the passions.” Tacitus “Glory ought to be the consequence, not the motive of our actions.” Pliny the Younger “The future you shall know when it has come before then, forget it.” Aeschylus “Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.” Sophocles “I would much rather people ask why I have no statue than why I have one.” Cato the Elder “Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.” Theophrastus “Love your enemies, do good to them that hate you, bless them that curse you, and pray for them that despitefully use you.” Matthew 5:44 “Love of money is the root of all evil.” I Timothy 6:17 “To fear the worst often cures the worst.” Shakespeare “Those who realize their folly are not true fools.” Chuang tzu “If we’re not foolish young, we’re foolish old.” Chaucer “Love is patient, love is kind.” I Corinthians 13:4 “Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise.” Proverbs 17:28 “The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine…” Homer There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.” Aeschylus It must keep its watchful place at the heart’s controls. “One shouldn’t be too inquisitive in life either about God’s secrets or one’s wife.” Chaucer “Two things only the people desire-bread and circuses.” Juvenal “Outward beauty is not enough to be attractive a woman must…use words, wit, playfulness, sweet-talk, and laughter to transcend the gifts of nature.” Petronius “I believe because it is impossible.” Tertullian “Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.” Seneca “It is painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made it.” Sophocles “Watch a man in times of…adversity to discover what kind of man he is for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off…” Lucretius The following collection of quotes can best be described as ancient wisdom, and the words from these great thinkers may still serve as inspiration for people today. The ancient world produced many great thinkers whose wisdom comes to us through their recorded thoughts and ideas about things that people still reflect on or care about today.

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