Silius Italicus Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
If God has given you the world's goods in abundance, it is to help you gain those of Heaven and to be a good example of sound teaching to your sons, servants, and relatives.
-
You don't find out who you are unless you work at it.
-
Loyalty and religion have many meanings, and self-interest is a skilled interpreter.
-
My elder sister used to get the fashion magazines, and I would go through them and find things I liked and buy fabric and copy them. But I hated what I looked like. I mean, I was sooo skinny.
-
Freedom is the world of joy.
-
Traveling is my priority, because it drives the writing, so I teach around the travel, and sometimes the travel is the teaching.
-
Look at what is broken in society, figure out how to make it better, and then, around that, formulate a business.
-
Wretched, ephemeral race, children of chance and tribulation, why do you force me to tell you the very thing which it would be most profitable for you not to hear? The very best thing is utterly beyond your reach: not to have been born, not to be, to be nothing. However, the second best thing for you is: to die soon.
-
Spreadsheets are fiction. Believing in what you're doing and what you're building is what's important.
-
He didn't have no respect as a professional fighter should, no class. I was going to make him pay with his health for everything he said... I wanted to do it very slowly. I wanted him to remember this for a long time.
-
How far do our feelings take their colour from the dive underground? I mean, what is the reality of any feeling?
-
Be a voice not an echo.
-
We should be on our guard not to overestimate science and scientific methods when it is a question of human problems, and we should not assume that experts are the only ones who have the right to express themselves on questions affecting the organization of society.
-
When you're a writer, you know that a lot of times you have to sneak up on yourself in order to achieve what you want to achieve, and sometimes you don't even know what it is until you've done it.
-
It was not often that she was alone like this and she did not like it. When she was alone she had to think and, these days, thoughts were not so pleasant.
-
There's no right way or wrong way to work. There's only your way.
-
My third maxim was to try always to conquer myself rather than fortune, and to change my desires rather than the order of the world, and generally to accustom myself to believing that there is nothing entirely in our power except our thoughts, so that after we have done our best regarding things external to us, everything in which we do not succeed is for us absolutely impossible.
-
Make haste! The tide of Fortune soon ebbs.
