Thinkers of the Classical Antiquity
Epictetus
50 – 138
Philosophyquotes
Epictetus was a Greek Stoic philosopher. He was born into slavery at Hierapolis, Phrygia and lived in Rome until his banishment, after which he spent the rest of his life in Nicopolis in northwestern Greece.
Upon all occasions we ought to have these maxims ready at hand:
Seneca the Younger
4 BCE – 65
Philosophyquotes
Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger, usually known mononymously as Seneca, was a Stoic philosopher of Ancient Rome, a statesman, a dramatist, and in one work, a satirist, from the post-Augustan age of Latin literature.
I am endeavouring to live every day as if it were a complete life.
Philo
14 BCE – 50
Philosophyquotes
Philo of Alexandria, also called Philō Judæus, was a Hellenistic Jewish philosopher who lived in Alexandria, in the Roman province of Egypt.
Nothing will a man rue more than refusal to listen to the wise.
Ovid
42 BCE – 17
Literaturequotes
Publius Ovidius Naso, known in English as Ovid, was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus. He was a younger contemporary of Virgil and Horace, with whom he is often ranked as one of the three canonical poets of Latin literature. The Imperial scholar Quintilian considered him the last of the Latin love elegists.
Qui finem quaeris amoris,Cedit amor rebus; res age, tutus eris.
Pliny the Elder
20 – 79
Sciencequotes
Gaius Plinius Secundus, known in English as Pliny the Elder, was a Roman author, naturalist, scientist, naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, procurator, and friend of the emperor Vespasian. Pliny wrote the encyclopedic Naturalis Historia, a thirty-seven-volume work covering a vast array of topics on human knowledge and the natural world, which became an editorial model for encyclopedias. He spent most of his spare time studying, writing, and investigating natural and geographic phenomena in the field.
It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
Quintilian
35 – 96
Literaturequotes
Apollonius of Tyana
15 – 100
Philosophyquotes
Apollonius of Tyana was a Greek philosopher and religious leader from the town of Tyana, Cappadocia in Roman Anatolia, who spent his life travelling and teaching in the Middle East, North Africa and India. He is a central figure in Neopythagoreanism and was one of the most famous "miracle workers" of his day.
To speak falsely is the mark of a slave, but the truth is noble.
Words from December 5
"Upon all occasions we ought to have these maxims ready at hand:"
Epictetus
50
"The essence of good and evil is a certain disposition of the will."
Epictetus
50
"I am endeavouring to live every day as if it were a complete life."
Seneca the Younger
4 BCE
"He knows his own strength; he knows that he was born to carry burdens."
Seneca the Younger
4 BCE
"Nothing will a man rue more than refusal to listen to the wise."
Philo
14 BCE
"Bodies have men as their masters, souls their vices and passions."
Philo
14 BCE