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Historical literature10 quotes

I came, I saw, I conquered. — Julius Caesar · 46 BC Old to grow, but ever learning. — Solon · 119 Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly. — Marcus Licinus Crassus · 119 It is circumstance and proper timing that give an action its character and make it either good or bad. — Plutarch · 119 Written laws are like spiders' webs; they will catch, it is true, the weak and poor, but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful. — Anacharsis A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, "Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful? Holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. "Yet," added he, "none of you can tell where it pinches me." — Plutarch · 119 All 10 quotes →

Biography6 quotes

I came, I saw, I conquered. — Julius Caesar · 46 BC One more such victory over the Romans and we are lost. — Pyrrhus · 279 BC To break a treaty is contempt for the gods. But to outwit an enemy is not only just and glorious-but profitable and sweet. — Plutarch · 100 Wait for the wisest of all counsellors, Time. — Pericles · 100 How strongly does this bear out the truth of Plato's maxim, that he who wishes to be really rich ought to lessen his desires rather than increase his property, because if a man places no bounds to his covetousness, he never will be free from want and misery. — Plutarch It is not reasonable that he who does not shoot should hit the mark, nor that he who does not stand fast at his post should win the day, or that the helpless man should succeed or the coward prosper. — Plutarch

Philosophical literature1 quote

All men whilst they are awake are in one common world; but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own. — Heraclitus

Political speech1 quote

Carthage must be destroyed. — Cato the Elder · 149 BC