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Ancient Roman Historian Inspirational Quotes (152)

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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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One man by delaying saved the state for us.
Quintus Ennius
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O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics - Unless I am down with rheumatics.
Quintus Ennius
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A sure friend is known in unsure circumstances.
Quintus Ennius
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By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
Sallust
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It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.
Julius Caesar
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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses
Cato the Elder
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For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
Sallust
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He who civilly shows the way to one who has missed it, is as one who has lighted another's lamp from his own lamp it none the less gives light to himself when it burns for the other.
Quintus Ennius
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It is for the good of states that men should be deluded by religion.
Marcus Terentius Varro
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He hath freedom whoso beareth a clean and constant heart within.
Quintus Ennius
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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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No one regards what is before his feet we all gaze at the stars.
Quintus Ennius
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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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The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
Sallust
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Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.
Julius Caesar
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For my eightieth year warns me to pack up my baggage before I leave life.
Marcus Terentius Varro
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Avoid an unusual and unfamiliar word just as you would a reef.
Julius Caesar
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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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Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
Sallust
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Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
Cato the Elder
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No grief reaches the dead.
Sallust
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