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Ancient Roman Politician Inspirational Quotes (788)

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Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.
Augustus
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I will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid.
Cato the Younger
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No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest god. [Lat., Fortis vero, dolorem summum malum judicans aut temperans, voluptatem summum bonum statuens, esse certe nullo modo potest.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is hunger for drink, thirst.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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When time and need require, we should resist with all our might, and prefer death to slavery and disgrace.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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These studies are a spur to the young, a delight to the old: an ornament in prosperity, a consoling refuge in adversity they are pleasure for us at home, and no burden abroad they stay up with us at night, they accompany us when we travel, they are with us in our country visits.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Anyone may fairly seek his own advantage, but no one has a right to do so at another's expense.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself you will never err if you listen to your own suggestions.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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It is a great proof of talents to be able to recall the mind from the senses, and to separate thought from habit.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Strain every nerve to gain your point.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The forehead is the gate of the mind.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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A good man will not lie, although it be for his profit.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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I love treason but hate a traitor.
Julius Caesar
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We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much you value, than to be right in the company of such men.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually?
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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He is nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent.
Cato the Elder
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There is sufficient reward in the mere consciousness of a good action.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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A man would have no pleasures in discovering all the beauties of the universe, even in heaven itself, unless he had a partner to whom he might communicate his joys.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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A bachelor's bed is the most pleasant.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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