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Ancient Roman Politician Inspirational Quotes (788)

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In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Virtue is its own reward.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Slowly and imperceptibly old age comes creeping on.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Before beginning, prepare carefully.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men. [Lat., Homines ad deos nulla re propius accedunt, quam salutem hominibus dando.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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War gives the right to the conquerors to impose any condition they please upon the vanquished.
Julius Caesar
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To give counsel, as well as to take it, is a feature of true friendship.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.
Augustus
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Lucius Cassius ille quem populus Romanus verissimum et sapientissimum iudicem putabat identidem in causis quaerere solebat 'cui bono' fuisset. The famous Lucius Cassius, whom the Roman people used to regard as a very honest and wise judge, was in the habit of asking, time and again, 'To whose benefit?
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial disgrace. [Lat., Culpa enim illa, bis ad eundem, vulgari reprehensa proverbio est.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The budget should be balanced, the treasury refilled, public debt reduced, the arrogance of officialdom tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Vicious habits are so great a stain to human nature, and so odious in themselves, that every person actuated by right reason would avoid them, though he were sure they would be always concealed both from God and man, and had no future punishment entailed upon them.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing others.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The first duty of man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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There is no castle so strong that it cannot be overthrown by money.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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It is not the place that maketh the person, but the person that maketh the place honorable.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Few men desire liberty most men wish only for a just master.
Sallust
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The things that we want we willingly believe, and the things that we think we expect everyone else to think.
Julius Caesar
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