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„A legnagyobb ötletekkel rendelkező legnagyobb embereket a legkisebb elmével rendelkező legkisebb emberek is le tudják lőni. Mindenesetre gondolkodj nagyban!”

Teréz anya (1910–1997)

„A szerencse a bátraknak kedvez.”
Fortis fortuna adiuvat.

Publius Terentius Afer (-185–-159 i.e.) ókori római vígjátékíró

„Nem az szegény, akinek csak kevese van, hanem aki többre vágyik.”
Non qui parum habet, sed qui plus cupit, pauper est.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (-4–65 i.e.) római sztoikus filozófus

„Semmilyen szél nem kedvez annak, aki nem tudja, melyik kikötőbe tart.”
errant consilia nostra, quia non habent quo derigantur; ignoranti quem portum petat nullus suus ventus est.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (-4–65 i.e.) római sztoikus filozófus

„Nem szabad azt mondani, hogy minden hiba ostobaság.”
Non enim omnis error stultitia est dicenda.

Cicero (-106–-43 i.e.) ókori római író, filozófus, politikus

„Ha van egy kerted, és egy könyvtárad, akkor mindened megvan, amire csak szükséged lehet.”
Si hortum in bibliotheca habes, nihil deerit.

Cicero (-106–-43 i.e.) ókori római író, filozófus, politikus

„Ha bölcs vagy, kösd össze ezt a két elemet: ne reménykedj kétség nélkül, és ne ess kétségbe remény nélkül.”
Si sapis, alterum alteri misce: nec speraveris sine desperatione nec desperaveris sine spe.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (-4–65 i.e.) római sztoikus filozófus

“Our modern worship of empty ideals is ludicrous. What does the condition of the rabble matter? All we need do is to keep it as quiet as we can. What is more important, is to perpetuate those things of beauty which are of real value because involving actual sense-impressions rather than vapid theories. "Equality" is a joke — but a great abbey or cathedral, covered with moss, is a poignant reality. If it is for us to safeguard and preserve the conditions which produce great abbeys, and palaces, and picturesque walled town, and vivid sky-lines of steeples and domes, and luxurious tapestries, and fascinating books, paintings and statuary, and colossal organs and noble music, and dramatic deeds on embattled fields — these are all there is of life: take them away and we have nothing which a man of taste or spirit would care to live for. Take them away and our poets have nothing to sing — our dreamers have nothing to dream about. The blood of a million men is well shed in producing one glorious legend which thrills posterity and it is not at all important why it was shed.”

H.P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) American author

“Better late than never.”
Potius sero quam nunquam.

Livy (-59–17 BC) Roman historian

“Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies’ resources, and minimized their own.”

Livy (-59–17 BC) Roman historian

“They lived under a just and moderate government, and they admitted that one bond of their fidelity was that their rulers were the better men.”

Livy (-59–17 BC) Roman historian

“Temerity is not always successful.”

Livy (-59–17 BC) Roman historian

“Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.”

Livy (-59–17 BC) Roman historian

“It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.”

Livy (-59–17 BC) Roman historian

“It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.”

Livy (-59–17 BC) Roman historian

“There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal.”

Livy (-59–17 BC) Roman historian

“Such impetuous schemes and boldness are at first sight alluring, but are difficult to handle, and in the result disastrous.”

Livy (-59–17 BC) Roman historian

“Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.”

Livy (-59–17 BC) Roman historian

“There is always more spirit in attack than in defense.”

Livy (-59–17 BC) Roman historian