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For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
At power or wealth, for the sake of which wars, and all kinds of strife, arise among mankind, we do not aim; we desire only our liberty, which no honorable man relinquishes but with his life.
The whole world will be set in order by land and sea … if you deprive money, which is the root of all evil, of its advantage and honor.
All our power lies in both mind and body; we employ the mind to rule, the body rather to serve; the one we have in common with the Gods, the other with the brutes.
Bellum Catilinae (-44)
Is it not better to die in a glorious attempt, than, after having been the sport of other men's insolence, to resign a wretched and degraded existence with ignominy?
Bellum Catilinae (-44)
Necessity makes even the timid brave.
Bellum Catilinae (-44)
But at power or wealth, for the sake of which wars, and all kinds of strife, arise among mankind, we do not aim; we desire only our liberty, which no honorable man relinquishes but with his life.
Bellum Catilinae (-44)
Plenty of eloquence, not enough wisdom (said of Catiline)
Bellum Catilinae (-44)
But when sloth has introduced itself in the place of industry, and covetousness and pride in that of moderation and equity, the condition of a state is altered together with its morals; and thus authority is always transferred from the less to the more deserving.
Bellum Catilinae (-44)
Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
Misattributed
He that will be angry for anything, will be angry for nothing.
Disputed
Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.
Misattributed