Historian quotes

Ancient wisdom

Flavius Josephus quote: “Now Herod was an active man, and…”

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Sallust quote: “No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers;…”

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Sallust quote: “No mortal man has ever served at…”

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Sallust quote: “Neither soldiers nor money can defend a…”

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Sallust quote: “Most honorable are services rendered to the…”

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Sallust quote: “Just to stir things up seemed a…”

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Sallust quote: “Kings are more prone to mistrust the…”

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Titus Livius quote: “It is easier to criticize than to…”

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Titus Livius quote: “It is easy at any moment to…”

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Titus Livius quote: “It is better that a guilty man…”

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Sallust quote: “It is better to use fair means…”

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Sallust quote: “It is a law of human nature…”

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Sallust quote: “In my opinion it is less shameful…”

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Sallust quote: “In my opinion, he only may be…”

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Sallust quote: “In my own case, who have spent…”

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Sallust quote: “In battle it is the cowards who…”

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Titus Livius quote: “In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest…”

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Titus Livius quote: “He will have true glory who despises…”

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Sallust quote: “He that will be angry for anything…”

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Sallust quote: “He only seems to me to live…”

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Sallust quote: “Harmony makes small things grow, lack of…”

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Titus Livius quote: “From abundance springs satiety…”

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Titus Livius quote: “Fortune blinds men when she does not…”

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Sallust quote: “Few men desire liberty; most men wish…”

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Titus Livius quote: “Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly…”

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Sallust quote: “Everything that rises sets, and everything that…”

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Sallust quote: “Every man is the architect of his…”

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Sallust quote: “Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable…”

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Titus Livius quote: “Envy like fire always makes for the…”

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Tacitus quote: “Custom adapts itself to expediency…”

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