Frasi di Quinto Sestio

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

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

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

“It is not death; but a bad life, which destroys the soul.”

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

“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.”

“He best honors God who makes his intellect as like God as possible.”

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

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

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

“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.”