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Ancient Roman Historian Inspirational Quotes (152)

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One man restored our fortunes by delay. [By skilfully avoiding an engagement, Fabius exhausted the resources of the enemy.]
Quintus Ennius
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No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers many take them more seriously than is right.
Sallust
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Go on, my friend, and fear nothing you carry Caesar and his fortune in your boat.
Julius Caesar
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I came, I saw, I conquered.
Julius Caesar
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Men freely believe that which they desire.
Julius Caesar
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Be firm or mild as the occasion may require.
Cato the Elder
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Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all - they produced an oyster.
Sallust
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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
Sallust
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The difference between a republic and an empire is the loyalty of one's army
Julius Caesar
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Peace is obtained by war.
Cornelius Nepos
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As a result of a general defect of nature, we are either more confident or more fearful of unusual and unknown things.
Julius Caesar
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A true friend is a friend when in difficulty
Quintus Ennius
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Not all who own a harp are harpers.
Marcus Terentius Varro
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If I fail it is only because I have too much pride and ambition.
Julius Caesar
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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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People readily believe what they want to believe.
Julius Caesar
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
Sallust
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Whom men fear they hate, and whom they hate, they wish dead.
Quintus Ennius
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Before you act consider when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
Sallust
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All bad precedents begin as justifiable measures.
Julius Caesar
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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible
Sallust
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The fact that the stars predict high or low rank for the father of the person whose horoscope is taken, teaches that they do not always make things happen but sometimes only indicate things. For how could things which preceded the birth depend upon the birth?
Sallust
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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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In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.
Julius Caesar
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