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Ancient Roman Politician Inspirational Quotes (789)

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Our generosity never should exceed our abilities.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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We can more easily avenge an injury than requite a kindness on this account, because there is less difficulty in getting the better of the wicked than in making one's self equal with the good.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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There is nothing more shocking than to see assertion and approval dashing ahead of cognition and perception.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Life is nothing without friendship.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Study carefully, the character of the one you recommend, lest their misconduct bring you shame.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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There is no life without friendship
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Prudence in action avails more than wisdom in conception.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Nature abhors annihilation.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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In war, important events result from trivial causes.
Julius Caesar
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What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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It is generally said, Past labors are pleasant, Euripides says, for you all know the Greek verse, The recollection of past labors is pleasant. [Lat., Vulgo enim dicitur, Jucundi acti labores: nec male Euripides: concludam, si potero, Latine: Graecum enim hunc versum nostis omnes: Suavis laborum est proeteritorum memoria.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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You may never be less alone than when you are alone.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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I prefer the wisdom of the uneducated to the folly of the loquacious.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light but notwithstanding this, the greatest theater for virtue is conscience.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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No man in his senses will dance.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Mental stains can not be removed by time, nor washed away by any waters. [Lat., Animi labes nec diuturnitate vanescere nec omnibus ullis elui potest.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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True glory strikes root, and even extends itself all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can any feigned thing be lasting.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Of the bodies in the cosmos, some imitate mind and move in orbits some imitate soul and move in a straight line, fire and air upward, earth and water downward.
Sallust
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A letter does not blush.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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No wise man has called a change of opinion in constancy.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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What is impossible by the nature of things is not confirmed by any law.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The higher our position the more modestly we should behave.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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