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Ancient Roman Politician Inspirational Quotes (788)

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Nothing is more praiseworthy, nothing more suited to a great and illustrious man than placability and a merciful disposition.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.
Julius Caesar
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That is probable which for the most part usually comes to pass, or which is a part of the ordinary beliefs of mankind.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Don't promise twice what you can do at once.
Cato the Younger
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All soils are not fertile.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Man is his own worst enemy.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
Sallust
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There is no duty more indispensible than that of returning a kindness.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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All the arts, which have a tendency to raise man in the scale of being, have a certain common band of union, and are connected, if I may be allowed to say so, by blood-relationship with one another.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Never travel by sea when you can go by land.
Cato the Younger
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For hardly any man dances when sober, unless he is insane. Nor does he dance while alone, nor at a respectable and moderate party. Dancing is the final phase of a wild party with fancy decorations and a multitude of delights.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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A true friend is a sort of second self.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.
Sallust
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Like, according to the old proverb, naturally goes with like.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.
Julius Caesar
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What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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For just as some women are said to be handsome though without adornment, so this subtle manner of speech, though lacking in artificial graces, delights us.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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To wonder at nothing when it happens, to consider nothing impossible before it has come to pass.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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There are two ways to resolve conflicts, through violence or through negotiation. Violence is for wild beasts, negotiation is for human beings.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
Sallust
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We are not born, we do not live for ourselves alone our country, our friends, have a share in us.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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