A Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Man is his own worst enemy. [Lat., Nihil inimicius quam sibi ipse.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Marcus Tullius Cicero
Roman - Statesman
106 BC - 43 BC

The wise man is wise in vain who cannot be wise to his own advantage. [Lat., Nequicquam sapere sapientem, qui ipse sibi prodesse non quiret.]

Quintus Ennius

It is a wise child that knows his own father. [Lat., Nondum enim quisquam suum parentem ipse cognosvit.]

Homer

How does it happen, Maecenas, that no one is content with that lot in life which he has chosen, or which chance has thrown in his way, but praises those who follow a different course? [Lat., Qui fit, Maecenas, ut nemo quam sibi sortem, Seu ratio dederit, seu fors objecerit, illa Contentus vivat? laudet diversa sequentes.]

Horace

He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude.

Aristotle

Man is his own worst enemy.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Every man is his own worst enemy

Christina, Queen of Sweden

Let a man practise the profession he best knows. [Lat., Quam quisque novit artem, in hac se exerceat.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion.

Gerrit Smith

Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.

Seneca the Younger

A man who gives way to his passions is like a man who is shot by an enemy, catches the arrow in his hands, and then plunges it into his own heart. A man who is resisting his passions is like a man who is shot by an enemy, and although the arrow hits him, it does not seriously wound him because he is wearing a breastplate. But the man who is uprooting his passions is like a man who is shot by an enemy, but who strikes the arrow and shatters it or turns it back into his enemies heart.

Dorotheus of Gaza

To have nothing is not poverty. [Lat., Non est paupertas, Nestor, habere nihil.]

Martial

We should be slower to think that the man at his worst is the real man, and certain that the better we are ourselves the less likely is he to be at his worst in our company. Every time he talks away his own character before us he is signifying contempt for ours.

James M. Barrie

No man could look upon another as his enemy, unless he first became his own enemy.

Mahatma Gandhi

What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs? [Lat., Quid enim est melius quam memoria recte factorum, et libertate contentum negligere humana?]

Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger

The more a man denies himself, the more he shall receive from heaven. Naked, I seek the camp of those who covet nothing. [Lat., Quanto quisque sibi plura negaverit, A dis plura feret. Nil cupientium Nudus castra peto.]

Horace

There is nothing which God cannot do. [Lat., Nihil est quod deus efficere non possit.]

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