Quintus Sextius Quotes

“To live, indeed, is not in our power; but to live rightly is.”

“The sage and the contemner of wealth most resemble God.”

“He who is worthy of God is also a god among men.”

“There is danger, and no negligible one, to speak of God even the things that are true.”

“You have in yourself some thing similar to God, and therefore use yourself as the temple of God, on account of that which in you resembles God.”

“You should not dare to speak of God to the multitude.”

“The greatest honor which can be paid to God is to know and imitate him.”

“Accustom your soul after (it has conceived all that is great of ) divinity, to conceive something great of itself.”

“Be not anxious to please the multitude”

“A good intellect is the choir of divinity.”

“Consider lost all the time in which you do not think of divinity.”