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Ancient Roman Politician Inspirational Quotes (788)

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Set honor in one eye and death in th' other, and I will look on both indifferently. I love then name of honor more than I fear death.
Julius Caesar
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Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Let every man practise the trade which he best understands.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
Sallust
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A honest man is seldom a vagrant.
Cato the Younger
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Quacks pretend to cure other men's disorders, but fail to find a remedy for their own.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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If we are forced, at every hour, to watch or listen to horrible events, this constant stream of ghastly impressions will deprive even the most delicate among us of all respect for humanity.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.
Julius Caesar
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A careful physician . . . before he attempts to administer a remedy to his patient, must investigate not only the malady of the man he wishes to cure, but also his habits when in health, and his physical constitution.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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What fervent love of herself would Virtue excite if she could be seen!
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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No man was ever great without divine inspiration. [Lat., Nemo vir magnus aliquo afflatu divino unquam fuit.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquities.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Any man may make a mistake none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says. [Lat., Cujusvis hominis est errare nullius, nisi insipientis, in errore perseverae. Posteriores enim cogitationes (ut aiunt) sapientiores solent esse.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Avoid an unusual and unfamiliar word just as you would a reef.
Julius Caesar
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For there is assuredly nothing dearer to a man than wisdom, and though age takes away all else, it undoubtedly brings us that.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Nothing is so unpredictable as a throw of the dice, and yet every man who plays often will at some time or other make a Venus-cast: now and then he indeed will make it twice and even thrice in succession. Are we going to be so feebleminded then as to aver that such a thing happened by the personal intervention of Venus rather than by pure luck?
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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No deceit is so veiled as that which lies concealed behind the semblance of courtesy.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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What greater gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be kept up unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they owe to one another.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears.
Cato the Elder
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It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.
Sallust
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