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Ancient Roman Historian Inspirational Quotes (152)

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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
Sallust
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Anger so clouds the mind that it cannot perceive the truth.
Cato the Elder
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In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk bravery is a rampart of defense.
Sallust
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Neither the army nor the treasury, but friends, are the true supports of the throne for friends cannot be collected by force of arms, nor purchased with money they are the offspring of kindness and sincerity.
Sallust
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A true friend is tested in adversity.
Quintus Ennius
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The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
Sallust
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There were few who preferred honor to money.
Sallust
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He who overlooks a healthy spot for the site of his house is mad and ought to be handed over to the care of his relations and friends.
Marcus Terentius Varro
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All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.
Sallust
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When the prizes fall to the lot of the wicked, you will not find many who are virtuous for virtue's sake.
Sallust
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The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
Sallust
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As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see.
Julius Caesar
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It is impossible that there should be so much providence in the last details, and none in the first principles. Then the arts of prophecy and of healing, which are part of the cosmos, come of the good providence of the Gods.
Sallust
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Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
Sallust
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A coward dies a thousand deaths, the gallant never taste of death but once.
Julius Caesar
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A small state increases by concord the greatest falls gradually to ruin by dissension.
Sallust
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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.
Cato the Elder
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After divorce of Pompeia in 62 BC I feel that members of my family should never be suspected of breaking the law. -Meos tam suspicione quam crimine iudico carere oportere
Julius Caesar
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I am going to Spain to fight an army without a general, and thence to the East to fight a general without an army.
Julius Caesar
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Patience is the greatest of all virtues.
Cato the Elder
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To win by strategy is no less the role of a general than to win by arms.
Julius Caesar
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Here is he laid to whom for daring deed, nor friend nor foe could render worthy meed.
Quintus Ennius
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To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.
Quintus Ennius
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Men willingly believe what they wish.
Julius Caesar
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