Great Roman quotes
- Another one of the old poets, whose name has escaped my memory at present, called Truth the daughter of Time. (Aulus Gellius )
I. If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it. (Julius Caesar)
II. 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 )
III. If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
IV. Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey’s end. (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
V. An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason. (Publilius Syrus )
VI. The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain. (Horace)
VII. Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young. (Gaius Octavius)
VIII. Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness. (Titus Livius) trump would love this one :)
IX. Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end. (Marcus Annaeus Seneca)
X. Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man. (Gaius Plinius Secundu) this one is for potus44
XI. I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others. (Marcus Aurelius)
XII. We find that the Romans owed the conquest of the world to no other cause than continual military training, exact observance of discipline in their camps, and unwearied cultivation of the other arts of war. (Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus) special for the cabinet.
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