Marcus Terentius Varro quote: "He who overlooks a healthy spot for the site of his house is mad and ought to be handed over to the care of his relations and friends. [Lat., Qui salubrem locum negligit, mente est captus atque ad agnatos et gentiles deducendus.]"

Divine Nature gave the fields, human art built the cities.
MARCUS TERENTIUS VARRO

The longest part of the journey is said to be the passing of the gate.
MARCUS TERENTIUS VARRO

The number of guests at dinner should not be less than the number of the Graces nor exceed that of t...
MARCUS TERENTIUS VARRO

What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
MARCUS TERENTIUS VARRO

Fortune helps the brave.
PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER

There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.
PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER

To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the time without coming to a conclusion is t...
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER)

Give place to your betters. [Lat., De locum melioribus.]
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER)

Attired to please herself: no gems of any kind She wore, nor aught of borrowed gloss in Nature's ...
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER)

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER)

We should look at the lives of all as at a mirror, and take from others an example for ourselves. ...
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER)

How many unjust and wicked things are done from mere habit. [Lat., Quam multa injusta ac prava fiu...
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER)

I perceive that the things that we do are silly; but what can one do? According to men's habits an...
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER)

Charity begins at home. [Lat., Proximus sum egomet mihi.]
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER)

There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER)

You are harping on the same string. [Lat., Cantilenam candem canis.]
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER)

Fare ye well, and give us your applause. [Lat., Vos valete et plaudite.]
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER)

When the mind is in a state of uncertainty the smallest impulse directs it to either side. [Lat.,...
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER)

No free man will ask as favor, what he can not claim as reward. [Lat., Neutiquam officium liberi e...
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER)

Knavery's now its own reward. [Lat., His nunc praemium est qui recta prava faciunt.]
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER)

I go back to those who say: what if the heavens fall? [Lat., Redeo ad illes qui aiunt: quid si c...
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER)

There is nothing which cannot be perverted by being told badly.
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER)

From others' slips some profit from one's self to gain. [Lat., Hoc scitum'st periculum ex aliis fa...
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER)

The nets not stretched to catch the hawk, Or kite, who do us wrong; but laid for those Who do ...
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER)

All persons as they become less prosperous, are the more suspicious. They take everything as an af...
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER)

Do not waste bricks. (Waste your labor.) [Lat., Ne laterum laves.]
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER)

As you can not do what you wish, you should wish what you can do. [Lat., Quoniam id fieri quod vis...
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER)

When you will, they wont, when you wont, they will.
TERENCE PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER

What the law will compel you to do, do of your own free will.
TERENCE PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER

Too much of anything is bad.
TERENCE PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER

When in good health we easily give good advice to the sick.
TERENCE PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER

Fortune favors the brave. [Lat., Fortes fortuna adjuvat.]
TERENCE PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER

Do not waste bricks. (Waste your labor.) [Lat., Ne laterum laves.]
TERENCE PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER

Charity begins at home. [Lat., Proximus sum egomet mihi.]
TERENCE PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER

You tell a tale to a dead man.
TERENCE PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER

You stick in the same mire.
TERENCE PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER

You made this mess yourself, and now you must eat it all up.
TERENCE PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER

You kick against the goad.
TERENCE PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER

You harp perpetually on the same string.
TERENCE PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER

You are his father by nature, I by counsel.
TERENCE PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER

Words pay no debts.
TERENCE PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER

With his own weapon do I stab him.
TERENCE PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER

Being an Ethiopian-born, Swedish-raised chef, there's nothing traditional about my Thanksgiving ...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON

Thanksgiving is one of my favorite American traditions. I quickly picked it up when I moved to the U...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON

Thanksgiving is probably my favorite holiday - it's a day that's American to the core and it...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON

Cooking is in an honest profession where you cannot hide and let others do the work for you. You hav...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON

For me, brunch is such a versatile meal since you can play on both the sweet and savory in your dish...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON

Childhood nutrition and healthy eating is a cause that is extremely close to my heart.
MARCUS SAMUELSSON

Spices, of course, are essential.
MARCUS SAMUELSSON

Like all food, whether you're talking about Persian food, or Chinese food, or Swedish food, it&#...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON

Every time you use the word 'healthy,' you lose. The key is to make yummy, delicious food th...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON

If you get hungry mid-day, a banana is the best snack at your desk, after a workout, or in between c...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON

Even just a few spices or ethnic condiments that you can keep in your pantry can turn your mundane d...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the futur...
MARCUS AURELIUS

The darker the chocolate is, the more antioxidants it contains. So when eaten in moderation - just a...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON

What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.
MARCUS AURELIUS

Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise ...
MARCUS AURELIUS

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.
MARCUS AURELIUS

Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.
MARCUS AURELIUS

Weekends are sacred for me. They're the perfect time to relax and spend time with family and fri...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON

The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations ...
MARCUS AURELIUS

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.
MARCUS AURELIUS

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is...
MARCUS AURELIUS

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.
MARCUS AURELIUS

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.
MARCUS AURELIUS

Be content to seem what you really are.
MARCUS AURELIUS

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.
MARCUS AURELIUS

Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be...
MARCUS AURELIUS

The act of dying is one of the acts of life.
MARCUS AURELIUS

Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle.
MARCUS AURELIUS

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
MARCUS AURELIUS

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
MARCUS AURELIUS

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education wit...
MARCUS AURELIUS

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be satisfied with ...
MARCUS AURELIUS

The universe is transformation: life is opinion.
MARCUS AURELIUS

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
MARCUS AURELIUS

Poverty is the mother of crime.
MARCUS AURELIUS

The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.
MARCUS AURELIUS

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
MARCUS AURELIUS

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
MARCUS AURELIUS

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
MARCUS AURELIUS

Each day provides its own gifts.
MARCUS AURELIUS

A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
MARCUS AURELIUS

Confine yourself to the present.
MARCUS AURELIUS

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
MARCUS AURELIUS

Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finis...
MARCUS AURELIUS

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet ...
MARCUS AURELIUS

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.
MARCUS AURELIUS

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.
MARCUS AURELIUS

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
MARCUS AURELIUS

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
MARCUS AURELIUS

If we became buddies, obviously I'd start throwing some cracks at Him.
MARCUS LUTTRELL

I got my service dog when I was medically retired out of the military, and it was the best thing tha...
MARCUS LUTTRELL

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
MARCUS AURELIUS

I think that if you grind your spices and keep them in small batches, you can use them in endless wa...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON

Together we were something less, which felt like such a relief, to not be ourselves for a while.
BEN MARCUS

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.
MARCUS MANILIUS

Certain foods are good for preparing your body for an intense workout and giving you the energy you ...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON

I'm really not a great businessperson. I understand business, and I understand numbers, but I th...
MARCUS LEMONIS

While I hold my own political views, it's important not to get too wrapped up in individual cand...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON

The company's contributions are practically never made on the basis of friendship, party affiliation...
ALAN MARCUS

It's a part of doing business. We're a professional-services firm and we have given to many politici...
ALAN MARCUS

It's not unusual. It's common. And until somebody makes it illegal, they're going to keep doing it.
ALAN MARCUS

We're really looking to branch out into new markets with this technology.
ALAN MARCUS

I think a lot of retailers were playing it a bit more conservative. If you look at it three years ag...
ALAN MARCUS

John and I spoke about it a few times. In fact, we spoke about it in the conference room in Trump To...
ALAN MARCUS

It's incredible. Right now we're about 40 percent up from this time last year. It's been extraordina...
ALAN MARCUS

The whole world is run on bluff.
MARCUS GARVEY

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought t...
MARCUS AURELIUS

Wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair and all the terrible things that happen to us, come beca...
MARCUS COLE

I failed to get into drama school, and my best friend told me I should do stand-up instead. I was al...
MARCUS BRIGSTOCKE

I'd lie in bed in my dormitory and grab at bits of my body, wanting to tear them off... I was so...
MARCUS BRIGSTOCKE

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
MARCUS AURELIUS

For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.
MARCUS AURELIUS

Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for s...
MARCUS AURELIUS

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
MARCUS AURELIUS

When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to lo...
MARCUS AURELIUS

The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
MARCUS AURELIUS

Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music...
GREIL MARCUS

And in the case of superior things like stars, we discover a kind of unity in separation. The higher...
MARCUS AURELIUS

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
MARCUS AURELIUS

Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault o...
MARCUS AURELIUS

A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.
MARCUS AURELIUS

Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.
MARCUS AURELIUS

Our life is what our thoughts make it.
MARCUS AURELIUS

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your est...
MARCUS AURELIUS

We fight our way through the massed and leveled collective safe taste of the Top 40, just looking fo...
GREIL MARCUS

Rock 'n Roll is a combination of good ideas dried up by fads, terrible junk, hideous failings in tas...
GREIL MARCUS

Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.
MARCUS AURELIUS

The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm an...
MARCUS AURELIUS

Your life is what your thoughts make it.
MARCUS AURELIUS

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.
MARCUS AURELIUS

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
MARCUS AURELIUS

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.
MARCUS AURELIUS

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
MARCUS AURELIUS

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you ...
MARCUS GARVEY

The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m/sec/sec.
MARCUS DOLENGO

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, ...
MARCUS AURELIUS

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
MARCUS AURELIUS

No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of...
GREIL MARCUS

Remember how often you have postponed minding your interest, and let slip those opportunities the go...
MARCUS AURELIUS

I have often wondered how it is everyone loves himself more than the rest of men, but yet sets less ...
MARCUS AURELIUS

Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.
MARCUS AURELIUS

It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the l...
GREIL MARCUS

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own ...
MARCUS AURELIUS

A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.
MARCUS AURELIUS

Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, t...
MARCUS AURELIUS

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits...
MARCUS AURELIUS

One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, th...
MARCUS AURELIUS

The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.
MARCUS AURELIUS

Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man--yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. S...
MARCUS AURELIUS

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
MARCUS AURELIUS

Where a man can live, he can also live well.
MARCUS AURELIUS

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
MARCUS AURELIUS

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.
MARCUS AURELIUS

Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man--yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. S...
MARCUS ANTONIUS

Always observe how ephemeral and worthless human things are. Pass then through this little space of ...
MARCUS AURELIUS

Opinion is the main thing which does harm or good in the world. It is our false opinions that ruin u...
MARCUS ANTONIUS

It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths.
GREIL MARCUS

Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself go...
MARCUS AURELIUS

Let it judge that nothing is either bad or good which can happen equally to the bad man and the good...
MARCUS AURELIUS

Men exist for the sake of one another.
MARCUS AURELIUS

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dy...
MARCUS AURELIUS

In the life of a man, his time is but a moment, his being an incessant flux, his senses a dim rushli...
MARCUS AURELIUS

If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them...
MARCUS AURELIUS

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that tim...
MARCUS AURELIUS

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.
MARCUS AURELIUS

Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion.
MARCUS AURELIUS

He tells himself over and over again in any choice presented to him, 'Prefer the hard.' This holds g...
MARCUS AURELIUS

Perfection of character consists in this; living each day as if it were the last, and spending each ...
MARCUS AURELIUS

Treat with utmost respect your power of forming opinions, for this power alone guards you against ma...
MARCUS AURELIUS

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for w...
MARCUS ANTONIUS

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.
MARCUS AURELIUS

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
MARCUS AURELIUS

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would ...
MARCUS AURELIUS

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, This is a mi...
MARCUS AURELIUS

Consumers are statistics. Customers are people.
STANLEY MARCUS

When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity, lose no time in recovering your self-control, and...
MARCUS AURELIUS

Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is unc...
MARCUS AURELIUS

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, yo...
MARCUS GARVEY

If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you h...
MARCUS GARVEY

A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something.
MARCUS AURELIUS

Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself g...
MARCUS AURELIUS

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
MARCUS AURELIUS

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-re...
MARCUS AURELIUS

Glory paid to our ashes comes too late
MARCUS AURELIUS

The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is
MARCUS AURELIUS

Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst
MARCUS AURELIUS

Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.
MARCUS AURELIUS

For all their compliments do verses pay? They mayn't, yet these same poems make me gay
MARCUS AURELIUS

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury
MARCUS AURELIUS

So great is the modesty of your mind and face, Sophronius that I wonder you should ever have become ...
MARCUS AURELIUS

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own ...
MARCUS AURELIUS

Remember this, - that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of ...
MARCUS AURELIUS

Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music...
GREIL MARCUS

How much more grevious are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. -Marcus Aurelius.
MARCUS AURELIUS

The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
MARCUS AURELIUS

You are a little soul carrying about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.
MARCUS AURELIUS

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only ...
MARCUS AURELIUS

When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: the people I deal with today will be meddling, ungra...
MARCUS AURELIUS

He who overlooks a healthy spot for the site of his house is mad and ought to be handed over to the care of his relations and friends. [Lat., Qui salubrem locum negligit, mente est captus atque ad agnatos et gentiles deducendus.]

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He who overlooks a healthy spot for the site of his house is mad and ought to be handed over to the care of his relations and friends. [Lat., Qui salubrem locum negligit, mente est captus atque ad agnatos et gentiles deducendus.]

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