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Biography · Historical literature

I came, I saw, I conquered.

Plutarch, Plutarch's Lives · 46 BC

★ 8.7

Speech · Political speech

Pro Milone · 52 BC

★ 8.0

Personal journal · Philosophical literature

Every instant of time is a pinprick of eternity.

Marcus Aurelius

Meditations · 180

★ 7.9

Religious literature

Therefore it is necessary to arrive at a prime mover, put in motion by no other; and this everyone understands to be God.

St. Thomas Aquinas

1265

★ 7.8

Lucius Cassius Longinus Ravilla

Cicero, Pro Milone · 80 BC

★ 7.7

Personal journal · Philosophical literature

Be like a headland of rock on which the waves break incessantly: but it stands fast and around it the seething of the waters sinks to rest.

Marcus Aurelius

Meditations · 180

★ 7.6

Only two things does he anxiously wish for-bread and circuses.

Satires · 127

★ 7.3

The traveler with nothing on him sings in the robber’s face.

Satires

★ 7.3

If a person knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.

65

★ 7.1

Philosophical literature

O happy race of mortals, if your hearts are ruled, as is the universe, by Love!

The Consolation of Philosophy · 523

★ 7.1

The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things-bread and circuses!

Satires · 127

★ 7.0

Speech · Political speech

Carthage must be destroyed.

Plutarch, Plutarch's Lives · 149 BC

★ 6.3

Biography · Historical literature

The die is cast.

Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars · 49 BC

★ 5.7

Personal journal · Philosophical literature

Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.

Marcus Aurelius

Meditations · 180

★ 5.6

Biography · Historical literature

I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.

Caesar Augustus

Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars · 121

★ 4.9

Speech · Political speech

Laws are silent in time of war.

Pro Milone · 52 BC

★ 4.8

Historical literature · Autobiography and memoir

Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.

The Gallic Wars · 49 BC

★ 4.0

Historical literature · Autobiography and memoir

Gaul as a whole is divided into three parts.

The Gallic Wars · 49 BC

★ 4.0

Philosophical literature

For it is commonly said: completed labors are pleasant.

De Finibus · 45 BC

★ 4.0

Personal journal · Philosophical literature

What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.

Marcus Aurelius

Meditations · 180

★ 4.0

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