Quotes from Ancient Times
Tertullian ~ Theocritus Quotations
The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage.
You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave.
Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
Wide are men’s inquiries into uncertainties; wider still are their disputes about conjectures.
Truth and the hatred of truth come into our world together. As soon as truth appears, it is regarded as an enemy.
You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies
Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
You shouldn't feel sorry for the lifestyle you haven't tasted, but for the one you are about to lose.
The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.
Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.
I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.
Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear.
God is a circle whose centre is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.
Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.
The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you.
Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.
A dream which is not interpreted is like a letter which is not read.
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
God is a circle whose centre is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
For heaven's eternal wisdom has decreed, that man of man should ever stand in need.
Memorable Quotes
The secret of freedom, courage.
Faults are beauties in a lovers eye.
Now begins a torrent of words and a trickling of sense.
Strike, if you will, but listen.
I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.
Trying will do anything in this world.
I shall sing a sweeter song tomorrow.
Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth.
Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.
I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.
God is a circle whose centre is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
The most famous of them all was the overthrow of the island of Atlantis.