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Ancient Roman Politician Inspirational Quotes (790)

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The beginnings of all things are small.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Friends are proved by adversity.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Saving the virtues includes all other advantages
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Either the future is subject to chance--in which case nobody, not even a god, can affect it one way or the other--or it is predestined, in which case foreknowledge cannot avert it.
Quintus Tullius Cicero
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It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see.
Julius Caesar
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Men think they may justly do that for which they have a precedent.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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It is impossible that there should be so much providence in the last details, and none in the first principles. Then the arts of prophecy and of healing, which are part of the cosmos, come of the good providence of the Gods.
Sallust
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What the object of senile avarice may be I cannot conceive. For can there be anything more absurd than to seek more journey money, the less there remains of the journey?
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Death approaches, which is always impending like the stone over Tantalus: then comes superstition with which he who is imbued can never have peace of mind.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Memory is the receptacle and sheath of all knowledge
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Mature means neither too soon nor too late, but something between the two.
Nigidius Figulus
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In a discussion of this kind our interest should be centered not on the weight of the authority but on the weight of the argument. Indeed the authority of those who set out to teach is often an impediment to those who wish to learn. They cease to use their own judgment and regard as gospel whatever is put forward by their chosen teacher.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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There is in superstition a senseless fear of God.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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He is an eloquent man who can treat humble subjects with delicacy, lofty things impressively, and moderate things temperately.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Sound conviction should influence us rather than public opinion.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
Sallust
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A coward dies a thousand deaths, the gallant never taste of death but once.
Julius Caesar
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My precept to all who build, is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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A small state increases by concord the greatest falls gradually to ruin by dissension.
Sallust
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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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