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- Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.
- Polybius (205 BC - 118 BC), History
- There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man.
- Polybius (205 BC - 118 BC), History
- In fact, nothing is said that has not been said before.
- Terence (185 BC - 159 BC), Eunuchus
- I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.
- Terence (185 BC - 159 BC), Eunuchus
- Fortune helps the brave.
- Terence (185 BC - 159 BC), Phormio
- I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example for himself.
- Terence (185 BC - 159 BC), Adelphoe
- Endless money forms the sinews of war.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), Philippics
- Veni, vidi, vici.
[I came, I saw, I conquered] - Julius Caesar (100 BC - 44 BC), from Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars
- Et tu, Brute.
[You also, Brutus.] - Julius Caesar (100 BC - 44 BC), from Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars
- It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.
- Julius Caesar (100 BC - 44 BC), from Plutarch, Lives
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