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Ancient Roman Politician Inspirational Quotes (789)

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It is a man's own dishonesty, his crimes, his wickedness, and boldness, that takes away from him soundness of mind these are the furies, these the flames and firebrands, of the wicked.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The avarice of the old: it's absurd to increase one's luggage as one nears the journey's end.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Man is his own worst enemy. [Lat., Nihil inimicius quam sibi ipse.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The freedom of poetic license.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Hatred is inveterate anger.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Wisdom often exists under a shabby coat.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The Gods being good and making all things, there is no positive evil, it only comes by absence of good just as darkness itself does not exist, but only comes about by absence of light.
Sallust
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The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
Cato the Younger
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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The judgment of posterity is truer, because it is free from envy and malevolence.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone.
Scipio Africanus
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We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Fortune, not wisdom, rules lives.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The cabbage surpasses all other vegetables. If, at a banquet, you wish to dine a lot and enjoy your dinner, then eat as much cabbage as you wish, seasoned with vinegar, before dinner, and likewise after dinner eat some half-dozen leaves. It will make you feel as if you had not eaten, and you can drink as much as you like.
Cato the Younger
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Certain signs are the forerunners of certain events.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The worst ruler is one who cannot rule himself.
Cato the Elder
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The impulse which directs to right conduct, and deters from crime, is not only older than the ages of nations and cities, but coeval with that Divine Being who sees and rules both heaven and earth.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Come now: Do we really think that the gods are everywhere called by the same names by which they are addressed by us? But the gods have as many names as there are languages among humans. For it is not with the gods as with you: you are Velleius wherever you go, but Vulcan is not Vulcan in Italy and in Africa and in Spain.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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A perverse temper and fretful disposition will make any state of life whatsoever unhappy.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The man who commands efficiently must have obeyed others in the past, and the man who obeys dutifully is worthy of someday being a commander.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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