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Ancient Roman Politician Inspirational Quotes (790)

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To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Time is the herald of truth.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very flower of dignity.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Men do not realize how great an income thrift is.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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No sane man will dance.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defence can actually be just.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Anger so clouds the mind that it cannot perceive the truth.
Cato the Elder
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In everything, without doubt, truth has the advantage over imitation.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk bravery is a rampart of defense.
Sallust
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Neither the army nor the treasury, but friends, are the true supports of the throne for friends cannot be collected by force of arms, nor purchased with money they are the offspring of kindness and sincerity.
Sallust
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We ought to regard amiability as the quality of woman, dignity that of man.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Orators are most vehement when they have the weakest cause, as men get on horseback when they cannot walk.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its griefs and anxieties. [Lat., Secundas res splendidiores facit amicitia, et adversas partiens communicansque leviores.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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There were poets before Homer.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Peace is so beneficial that the word itself is pleasant to hear.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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This seems to be advanced as the surest basis for our belief in the existence of gods, that there is no race so uncivilized, no one in the world so barbarous that his mind has no inkling of a belief in gods.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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I cannot find a faithful message-bearer, he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Probability is the very guide of life.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long. [Lat., Mature fieri senem, si diu velis esses senex.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny. For it is but usurpation in him to save, as their rightful lord, the lives of men over whom he has no title to reign.
Cato the Younger
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