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Ancient Roman Historian Inspirational Quotes (152)

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Of the cosmic Gods some make the world be, others animate it, others harmonize it, consisting as it does of different elements the fourth class keep it when harmonized.
Sallust
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Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.
Cato the Elder
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Harmony makes small things grow lack of it makes great things decay.
Sallust
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The fame which is based on wealth or beauty is a frail and fleeting thing but virtue shines for ages with undiminished lustre.
Sallust
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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Sallust
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No music is so charming to my ear as the requests of my friends, and the supplications of those in want of my assistance.
Julius Caesar
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The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness. [Lat., Sociis atque amicis auxilia portabant Romani, magisque dandis quam accipiundis beneficiis amicitias parabant.]
Sallust
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It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.
Sallust
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In war trivial causes produce momentous events.
Julius Caesar
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Sovereignty is easily preserved by the very arts by which it was originally created. When, however, energy has given place to indifference, and temperance and justice to passion and arrogance, then as the morals change so changes fortune.
Sallust
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The ape, vilest of beasts, how like to us.
Quintus Ennius
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One man by delay restored the state, for he preferred the public safety to idle report. [Lat., Unus homo nobis cunctando restituit rem, Non ponebat enim rumores ante salutem.]
Quintus Ennius
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So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.
Cornelius Nepos
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The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
Cornelius Nepos
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In war, important events result from trivial causes.
Julius Caesar
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After darkness comes the light.
Cornelius Nepos
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Of the bodies in the cosmos, some imitate mind and move in orbits some imitate soul and move in a straight line, fire and air upward, earth and water downward.
Sallust
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The Gods being good and making all things, there is no positive evil, it only comes by absence of good just as darkness itself does not exist, but only comes about by absence of light.
Sallust
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He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.
Quintus Ennius
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The worst ruler is one who cannot rule himself.
Cato the Elder
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I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.
Cato the Elder
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In friendship similarity of character has more weight than kinship.
Cornelius Nepos
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To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
Sallust
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In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.
Sallust
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