To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a…

To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.

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Two Caesars is one too many. - View Quote Details on Two Caesars is one too many.
Nothing common can seem worthy of you. - View Quote Details on Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
Quintili Vare, legiones redde! (Quintilius Varus, give me back my legions!) - View Quote Details on Quintili Vare, legiones redde! (Quintilius Varus, give me back my…
May it be my privilege to have the happiness of establishing the commonwealth on a firm and secure basis and thus enjoy the reward which I desire, but only if I may be called the author of the best possible government; and bear with me the hope when I die that the foundations which I have laid for its future government, will stand firm and stable. - View Quote Details on May it be my privilege to have the happiness of…
If I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with applause from the stage. - View Quote Details on If I have played my part well, clap your hands,…
If Agrippa and Maecenas had been alive, they never would have allowed it. - View Quote Details on If Agrippa and Maecenas had been alive, they never would…
I inherited it brick and left it marble. - View Quote Details on I inherited it brick and left it marble.
“He [Julius Caesar] learned that Alexander, having completed nearly all his conquests by the time he was thirty-two years old, was at an utter loss to know what he should do during the rest of his life, whereat Augustus expressed his surprise that Alexander did not regard it as a greater task to set in order the empire which he had won than to win it. ” ~ Plutarch - View Quote Details on “He [Julius Caesar] learned that Alexander, having completed nearly all…
Hasten deliberately. - View Quote Details on Hasten deliberately.
If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance; but since nature has so decreed that we cannot manage comfortably with them, nor live in any way without them, we must plan for our lasting preservation rather than for our temporary pleasure. - View Quote Details on If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome,…