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Ancient Roman Politician Inspirational Quotes (788)

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To freemen, threats are impotent. [Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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If a man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Let war be so carried on that no other object may seem to be sought but the acquisition of peace. [Lat., Bellum autem ita suscipiatur, ut nihil aliud, nisi pax, quaesita videatur.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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So you see, old age is really not so bad. May you come to know the condition!
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Thou shouldst eat to live not live to eat. [Lat., Esse oportet ut vivas, non vivere ut edas.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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I have sworn with my tongue, but my mind is unsworn. [Lat., Juravi lingua, mentem injuratem gero.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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No one has become immortal by sloth nor has any parent prayed that his children should live forever but rather that they should lead an honorable and upright life. [Lat., Ignavia nemo immortalis factus: neque quisquam parens liberis, uti aeterni forent, optavit magis, uti boni honestique vitam exigerent.]
Sallust
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All the arts of refinement have mutual kinship.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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You must therefore love me, myself, and not my circumstances, if we are to be real friends.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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An old man with something of the youth in him, may feel young in mind and heart only.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The soul in sleep gives proof of its divine nature.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Superstition is an unreasoning fear of God.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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When Caesar says, 'do this,' it is perform'd.
Mark Antony
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He removes the greatest ornament of friendship who takes away from it respect.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.
Julius Caesar
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The good of the people is the greatest law.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.
Cato the Elder
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When I consider the wonderful activity of the mind, so great a memory of what is past, and such a capacity of penetrating into the future: when I behold such a number of arts and sciences, and such a multitude of discoveries hence arising,--I believe and am firmly persuaded that a nature which contains so many things within itself cannot be mortal.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should be made.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The whole glory of virtue resides in activity.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Read at every wait read at all hours read within leisure read in times of labor read as one goes in read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Friendship is infinitely better than kindness.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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How much in love with himself, and that too without a rival!
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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