Great Throughts Treasury
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Macrobius, fully Macrobius Ambrosius Theodosius NULL
African-born Latin Writer, Roman Grammarian and Neoplatonist Philosopher
"Love and fear exclude each other."
"A wound does not pierce the soul."
"Good laws are begot by bad actions."
"Good laws have their origins in bad morals."
"Everything sweet quickly brings satiety."
"Each one forms his own character; his station is assigned to him by fortune."
"Good laws derive from evil habits."
"Love cannot exist where there is fear."
"Thou knowest not what evening may bring."
"So it is that even if the moderation of those who live luxuriously prevents injury to the bodily health, still luxury itself is a moral infirmity."
"The origin of speculation is a defective memory."
"You have been considering whether the fowl came first from the egg or the egg from the fowl."
"Time could not exist before the world."
"We should so speak with men as though the Gods were listening, and so speak with the Gods as though men were listening."
"Vulgar minds are more influenced by example than by argument."
"With himself as judge, no guilty man is acquitted, nor can any one escape his own sentence."