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Ancient Roman Politician Inspirational Quotes (788)

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The gardener plants trees, not one berry of which he will ever see: and shall not a public man plant laws, institutions, government, in short, under the same conditions?
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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We are born poets. we become orators.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The law is silent during war. [Lat., Silent leges inter arma.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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In the master there is a servant, in the servant a master.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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If I fail it is only because I have too much pride and ambition.
Julius Caesar
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The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. For in invention nature is never last, education never first rather the beginnings of things arise from natural talent, and ends are reached by discipline.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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There is, I know not how, a certain presage, as it were, of a future existence and this takes the deepest root, and is most discoverable, in the greatest geniuses and most exalted souls.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is to be regarded as the law of nature.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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No one sees what is before his feet: we all gaze at the stars. [Lat., Quod est ante pedes nemo spectat: coeli scrutantur plagas.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Silent enim leges inter arma (Laws are silent in times of war).
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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A wise man does nothing by constraint.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? In heaven's name,Catiline, how long will you abuse ourpatience?
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Generosity should never exceed ability.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Let me have men about me that are fat, Sleek-headed-men, and such as sleep o'nights Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look he thinks too much such men are dangerous.
Julius Caesar
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Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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He who has a garden and a library wants for nothing.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Go, therefore, to meet the foe with two objects before you, either victory or death. For men animated by such a spirit must always overcome their adversaries, since they go into battle ready to throw away their lives.
Scipio Africanus
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People readily believe what they want to believe.
Julius Caesar
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We should be as careful of our words as of our actions.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
Sallust
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