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Ancient Roman Politician Inspirational Quotes (788)

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That, Senators, is what a favour from gangs amounts to. They refrain from murdering someone then they boast that they have spared him!
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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All places are filled with fools. [Lat., Stultorum plenea sunt omnia.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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It is not unlikely, too, that the rejection of God is a kind of punishment: we may well believe that those who knew the Gods and neglected them in one life may in another life be deprived of the knowledge of them altogether. Also those who have worshipped their own kings as gods have deserved as their punishment to lose all knowledge of God.
Sallust
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If I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with applause from the stage.
Augustus
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Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Exile is terrible to those who have, as it were, a circumscribed habitation but not to those who look upon the whole globe but as one city.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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What is becoming is honest, and whatever is honest must always be becoming.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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I do not wish to die: but I care not if I were dead. [Lat., Emori nolo: sed me esse mortuum nihil aestimo.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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I am of the opinion which you have always held, that viva voce voting at elections is the best method. [Lat., Nam ego in ista sum sententia, qua te fuisse semper scio, nihil ut feurit in suffragiis voce melius.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking.
Cato the Elder
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Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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So it may well be believed that when I found him taking a complete holiday, with a vast supply of books at command, he had the air of indulging in a literary debauch, if the term may be applied to so honorable an occupation.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Most honorable are services rendered to the State even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.
Sallust
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We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!
Augustus
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Justice is the crowning glory of the virtues.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Ignorance of impending evil is far better than a knowledge of its approach.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Just as men must give up economic control when their wives share the responsibility for the family's financial well-being, women must give up exclusive parental control when their husbands assume more responsibility for child care.
Augustus
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