I love ambiguity. People are that way. People are very hard to work out. No one is just strong or just fragile, or anything like that.
Through pain I've learned to comfort suffering men
That man is the most loyal who aims at the noblest motive, and that motive the public good.
Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.
Others may fashion more smoothly images of bronze (I for one believe it), evoke living faces from marble, plead causes better, trace with a wand the wanderings of the heavens and foretell the rising of stars. But you, Roman, remember to rule the peoples with power (these will be your arts); impose the habit of peace, spare the vanquished and war down the proud!
If only Jupiter would restore me those bygone years.
All things deteriorate in time.
A job is never truly finished. It just reaches a stage where it can be left on its own for a while.
Perhaps the rediscovery of our humanity, and the potential of the human spirit which we have read about in legends of older civilizations, or in accounts of solitary mystics, or in tales of science fiction writers - perhaps this will constitute the true revolution of the future. The new frontier lies not beyond the planets but within each one of us.
Faith does not inquire whether there are good works to be done, but even before asking questions, faith has done the works already.
Up is down, pleasure is pain, darkness is light, slavery is freedom, madness is sanity.