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Ancient Roman Historian Inspirational Quotes (152)

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I believe that the members of my family must be as free from suspicion as from actual crime.
Julius Caesar
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Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'.
Julius Caesar
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He who has two languages has two souls.
Quintus Ennius
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The longest part of the journey is said to be the passing of the gate.
Marcus Terentius Varro
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I love treason but hate a traitor.
Julius Caesar
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He is nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent.
Cato the Elder
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War gives the right to the conquerors to impose any condition they please upon the vanquished.
Julius Caesar
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Few men desire liberty most men wish only for a just master.
Sallust
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The things that we want we willingly believe, and the things that we think we expect everyone else to think.
Julius Caesar
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Lighter is the wound foreseen.
Cato the Elder
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Divine nature gave us fields, human skill built our cities. -Divina natura dedit agros, ars humana aedificavit urbes
Marcus Terentius Varro
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Men gladly believe what they wish. -Libenter homines id quod volunt credunt
Julius Caesar
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The very life which we enjoy is short. [Lat., Vita ipsa qua fruimur brevis est.]
Sallust
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For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief.
Sallust
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Ennius was the father of Roman poetry, because he first introduced into Latin the Greek manner and in particular the hexameter metre.
Quintus Ennius
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It is better to suffer once than to be in perpetual apprehension.
Julius Caesar
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I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.
Julius Caesar
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It is not unlikely, too, that the rejection of God is a kind of punishment: we may well believe that those who knew the Gods and neglected them in one life may in another life be deprived of the knowledge of them altogether. Also those who have worshipped their own kings as gods have deserved as their punishment to lose all knowledge of God.
Sallust
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An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking.
Cato the Elder
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Most honorable are services rendered to the State even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.
Sallust
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Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.
Julius Caesar
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One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
Sallust
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No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.
Sallust
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How can life be worth living, if devoid Of the calm trust reposed by friend in friend? What sweeter joy than in the kindred soul, Whose converse differs not from self-communion?
Quintus Ennius
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