Coinmaster Posted February 24 · Member Share Posted February 24 OK, it's time for some elevated thoughts. Please share yours! 15 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coinmaster Posted February 24 · Member Author Share Posted February 24 Quote 'If you have a garden and a library and a coin collection, you have everything you need.' - Coinmaster 13 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coinmaster Posted February 24 · Member Author Share Posted February 24 I have nothing to say about this sorry excuse for a man.., but thinking of Highlander.. 5 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roman Collector Posted February 24 · Patron Share Posted February 24 It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them. -- Tiberius. 14 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roman Collector Posted February 24 · Patron Share Posted February 24 To do nothing evil is good; to wish nothing evil is better. -- Claudius 12 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
expat Posted February 24 · Supporter Share Posted February 24 You have power over your mind — not outside events. ... Marcus Aurelius 12 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antwerpen2306 Posted February 24 · Member Share Posted February 24 Socrates ? 7 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sulla80 Posted February 24 · Supporter Share Posted February 24 (edited) 4 hours ago, antwerpen2306 said: Socrates ? https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=915THY1ZeNEC&pg=GBS.PP1&hl=en Posted as an admonition at the entrance of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, and before that attributed to others including Chilon, philosopher and councilor in the city-state of Sparta and one of the Seven Sages of Greece, "Chilon of Lacedaemon, son of Damagetus, said: 1. Know yourself (γνῶθι σαυτόν). 2. When you drink do not speak too much: for you will commit a wrong. 3. Do not threaten free men; for that is not just...." (Ref: Early Greek Philosophy: Reflections On Gods and Men) "Solon, son of Execestides,1 an Athenian philosopher, lawgiver and leader of the people. He flourished in the 47th Olympiad (592/89), according to others in the 56th (556/3).2 When the tyrant Pisistratus plotted against him, he spent time abroad in Cilicia and founded a city which he called Soloi after himself. [SKIP] He is also one of the Seven Sages, as they are called. The maxims “Nothing in excess” and “Know yourself” are said to be his.Sages, as they are called. The maxims “Nothing in excess” and “Know yourself” are said to be his." - Solon, Testimonium there are others.... Edited February 24 by Sulla80 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Octavius Posted February 25 · Supporter Share Posted February 25 "Oderint dum metuant" , ( Let them hate (me), as long as they fear (me). Often uttered by and attributed to Caligula, though the phrase was originally from Accius , a Roman , tragic poet... 12 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Octavius Posted February 25 · Supporter Share Posted February 25 "Vae, puto deus fio" ( Woe is me! I think I'm turning into a god! " , supposedly quipped Vespasian on his death bed. Also , his famous "Pecunia non olet!" or money does not smell, defending his tax on public urinals to his son Titus. To this day, public urinals are called "Vespasiani" in Rome. Romans have long memories. 13 1 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rasiel Posted February 25 · Member Share Posted February 25 "I suffer from a thyroid condition" 7 3 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AncientOne Posted February 25 · Member Share Posted February 25 Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted. Hesketh Pearson 11 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Kowsky Posted February 25 · Member Share Posted February 25 "Be harmonious, enrich the soldiers, scorn all others." 17 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnus Maximus Posted February 27 · Member Share Posted February 27 Magnus Maximus AR Siliqua/Argentolus 1.7 grams Mediolanum mint- A.D. 387-388 4 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seth77 Posted February 27 · Member Share Posted February 27 (edited) 'Don't believe everything you read on the internet.' - Constantius II Edited February 27 by seth77 7 1 1 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ominus1 Posted February 27 · Supporter Share Posted February 27 ...'DON'T LET IT END LIKE THIS...TELL THEM I SAID SOMETHING!" last words of Pancho Villa... 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
expat Posted February 27 · Supporter Share Posted February 27 Augustus, the first Emperor of Rome, once famously stated, "Power is not given, it is taken." This profound quote encapsulates the nature of power dynamics and leadership. AUGUSTUS. Æ. As. (Caesaraugusta, Zaragoza, Spain) 25-11 BC Magistrates: Gnaeus Domitius Ampianus, Gaius Vettius Lancianus Obverse: IMP. AVGVSTVS. TRIB. POTS. XX., laureate head of Augustus to the right. Reverse: CAES. AVGVS (clockwise from 10-1). CN. DOM. AMP. C. VET. LANC (anti clockwise from 8-2). Priest ploughing with pair of oxen to the right. Below II (with horizontal line above) VIR. (*) RPC volume I, #320 Leaded bronze,12.85g. 31mm. Reference: Vives 148–10, GMI 328, Beltrán 16, NAH 982, AB. 327. 7 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AETHER Posted February 27 · Member Share Posted February 27 Early Lifetime issue, Price 3474, Sidon Mint 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coinmaster Posted February 27 · Member Author Share Posted February 27 5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Octavius Posted February 27 · Supporter Share Posted February 27 Seneca the stoic's famous quote about fate - “Fate leads the willing and drags along the reluctant.” He was Nero's unfortunate teacher... And speaking of Nero, he is famous for his dying words, which he most likely never uttered... " Oh, what an artist dies in me! " 8 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeandAcre Posted February 27 · Member Share Posted February 27 (edited) Antoninianus of Gallienus as co-emperor with Valerian, commemorating a victory over the Germanic tribes. (This, along with better examples, attributions, and explications are already posted elsewhere on this forum.) Right, Gallienus was a patron of Plotinus, who went on to be a profound influence on the cosmology of Augustine of Hippo, from over a century later. ...This one works. (Edit: just since even this web page for Plotinus is so good, here's the link. https://www.azquotes.com/author/18021-Plotinus ) Edited February 27 by JeandAcre 8 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Octavius Posted February 28 · Supporter Share Posted February 28 A quote by Julius Caesar to Brutus as he lay bleeding, near death, by the statue of Pompey (that probably never happened), "Tu quoque, fili mi?" (You also , my son?). 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Octavius Posted February 28 · Supporter Share Posted February 28 Augustus on his deathbed is alleged to have said " I found Rome a city of brick, and left her a city of marble". Also, "“Have I played the part well? Then applaud when I exit.” .... 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benefactor robinjojo Posted February 28 · Benefactor Benefactor Share Posted February 28 (edited) "It occurred to me that there have always been selkie women: women who did not seem to belong to this world, because they did not fit into prevailing notions of what women were supposed to be. And if you did not fit into those notions, in some sense you weren't a woman. Weren't even quite human. The magical animal woman is, or can be, a metaphor for those sorts of women." Theodora And her husband: Justinian I, follis, Antioch, officina Γ, year 13 (539/40 AD). Sear 218 22.7 grams Edited February 29 by robinjojo 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akeady Posted February 28 · Supporter Share Posted February 28 There's a great small museum in Dublin, the Chester Beatty Library - Alfred Chester Beatty didn't collect coins, he mostly collected Eastern manuscripts and Islamic art, but the museum of the collection he left the state is well worth a visit even by coin collectors: https://chesterbeatty.ie/ He's quoted as saying "It is no good keeping things that are not first class, they simply keep the collection down." I can't claim to collecy by his standards or motto, but I certainly enjoy an occasional nice coin 😄 Gens: Anonymous Coin: Silver Victoriatus - Laureate head of Jupiter right; bead and reed border L - Victory standing right, placing wreath on trophy Exergue: ROMA Mint: Luceria (211-208 BC) Wt./Size/Axis: 3.77g / 15mm / 7h References: RSC 36e* (Anon) Sydenham 121 Crawford 97/1a RBW 395 Acquisition: CNG Online auction eAuction 512 #480 23-Mar-2022 Notes: Apr 11, 22 - In NGC encapsulation 4374448-107, graded MS – Fine Style I haven't broken it free! ATB, Aidan. 7 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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