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Ancient Roman Politician Inspirational Quotes (788)

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The hours pass and the days and the months and the years, and the past time never returns.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Nothing is so secure as that money will not defeat it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses
Cato the Elder
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Man must suffer to be wise.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Hours and days and months and years go by the past returns no more, and what is to be we cannot know but whatever the time gives us in which we live, we should therefore be content.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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There is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
Sallust
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Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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For out of such an ungoverned populace one is usually chosen as a leader, someone bold and unscrupulous who curries favor with the people by giving them other men's property. To such a man the protection of public office is given, and continually renewed. He emerges as a tyrant over the very people who raised him to power.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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He who obeys with modesty appears worthy of being some day a commander.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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I had a good mind to discontinue permanently the supply of grain to the city, reliance on which had discouraged Italian agriculture, but refrained because some politician would be bound one day to revive the dole as a means of ingratiating himself with the people.
Augustus
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I came to see a king, not a row of corpses.
Augustus
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There is no thing which God cannot accomplish.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Hmm... That's like telling you about the cold of space, or terror of midnight. Sithis is all those things. He is... the Void.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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I am pleased to be praised by a man so praised as you, father. [Words used by Hector.] [Lat., Laetus sum Laudari me abs te, pater, laudato viro.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue. [Lat., Nam quae voluptate, quasi mercede aliqua, ad officium impellitur, ea non est virtus sed fallax imitatio simulatioque virtutis.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Since we have received everything from the Gods, and it is right to pay the giver some tithe of his gifts, we pay such a tithe of possessions in votive offering, of bodies in gifts of (hair and) adornment, and of life in sacrifices.
Sallust
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Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.
Sallust
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It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is true. Moreover, there shall be no suspicion of partiality in his writing, or of malice.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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I remember the very thing that I do not wish to I cannot forget the things I wish to forget.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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