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• “Ces magistrats, qui ne veillent que pour une partie des citoyens, introduisent dans l'État un dangereux fléau, la sédition et la discorde ; les uns passent alors pour amis du peuple, les autres pour défenseurs de l'aristocratie ; la patrie n'a presque plus de citoyens.”

  Cicéron (107–43 BC) said by 43 BC at the latest wikiquote:fr, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Nec iurare time: veneris periuria venti inrita per terras et freta summa ferunt. gratia magna Iovi: vetuit Pater ipse valere, iurasset cupide quidquid ineptus amor.”

  Tibullus (51–16 BC) said by 16 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Otium et reges prius et beatas perdidit urbes.”

  Catullus (84–54 BC) said by 54 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Les ennemis eurent encore l'avantage dans une autre bataille ; au cours de la mêlée, dit-on, César, voyant fuir le porte-enseigne, le saisit par le cou, le força à se retourner et lui lança : "Voilà où sont les ennemis !”

  Jules César (100–44 BC) said by 44 BC at the latest wikiquote:fr, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Les romains portent en eux la haine des rois et des femmes politiques. En plus d'être les deux à la fois, Cléopâtre est célèbre pour avoir été la compagne de deux puissants consuls romains : César et Marc-Antoine. Elle devient, après sa mort, le symbole d'une reine avide de pouvoir dans un orient dépravé.”

  Cléopâtre VII (69–30 BC) said by 30 BC at the latest wikiquote:fr, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Crescentem sequitur cura pecuniam, Maiorumque fames.”

  Horace (65–8 BC) said by 8 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Also quoted by: Virgil (misattributed)

• “The Xanthians, suspecting my kindness, have made their country the grave of their despair; the Patareans, trusting themselves to me, enjoy in all points their former liberty; it is in your power to choose the judgment of the Patareans or the fortune of the Xanthians.”

  Marcus Junius Brutus (85–42 BC) said by 42 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I assure you I had rather be the first man here than the second man in Rome.”

  Julius Caesar (100–44 BC) said by 44 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: On passing through a village in the Alps, as attributed in Parallel Lives , by Plutarch, as translated by John Langhorne and William Langhorne (1836), p. 499<!-- ; also quoted in p. 372 Handy-Book of Literary Curiositie…

• “Go and get accurate information about the child. As soon as you have found him, report to me, so that I too may go & honor him.”

  Herod the Great (74–4 BC) said by 4 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Muses de Sicile, élevons un peu le sujet de nos chants.”

  Virgile (70–19 BC) said by 19 BC at the latest wikiquote:fr, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “La concorde élève les petits États, la discorde ruine les plus grands.”

  Agrippa (63–12 BC) said by 12 BC at the latest wikiquote:fr, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Il est doux, quand sur la grande mer les vents soulèvent les flots, d'assister de la terre aux rudes épreuves d'autrui : non que la souffrance de personne nous soit un plaisir si grand ; mais voir à quels maux on échappe soi-même est chose douce.”

  Lucrèce (94–55 BC) said by 55 BC at the latest wikiquote:fr, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Lucrèce Gallimard Tel De la nature Alfred Ernout 1990 (reprise de la traduction parue aux Belles Lettres en 1984-85) II 1 61}} {{Réf Livre Lucrèce Flammarion GF De la Nature 1964 I{{er

• “Nec tumulum curo. Sepelit natura relictos.”

  Gaius Maecenas (died 8 BC) said by 8 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Cp. Webster, "Cornelia's Song" in The White Devil (1612), V, iv

• “Ἀχήεις τέττιξ, δροσεραῖς σταγόνεσσι μεθυσθείς, ἀγρονόμαν μέλπεις μοῦσαν ἐρημολάλον ἄκρα δ᾽ ἐφεζόμενος πετάλοις, πριονώδεσι κώλοις αἰθίοπι κλάζεις χρωτὶ μέλισμα λύρας. ἀλλά, φίλος, φθέγγου τι νέον δενδρώδεσι Νύμφαις παίγνιον, ἀντῳδὸν Πανὶ κρέκων κέλαδον, ὄφρα φυγὼν τὸν Ἔρωτα, μεσημβρινὸν ὕπνον ἀγρεύσω ἐνθάδ᾽ ὑπὸ σκιερᾷ κεκλιμένος πλατάνῳ.”

  Meleager of Gadara (151–51 BC) said by 51 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: ("To the Tree-Locust") C. A. Elton, Specimens of the Classical Poets, i (1814), p. 414.

• “Quicumque ille fuit, puerum qui pinxit Amorem nonne putas miras hunc habuisse manus? is primum vidit sine sensu vivere amantes”

  Propertius (47–16 BC) said by 16 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Courez en étirant les fils que suivent les destinées : courez, fuseaux.”

  Catulle (84–54 BC) said by 54 BC at the latest wikiquote:fr, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Matrem timidi flere non solere.”

  Cornelius Nepos (100–25 BC) said by 25 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Te quoque Vergilio comitem non aequa, Tibulle, Mors iuvenem campos misit ad Elysios, ne foret aut elegis mollis qui fleret amores aut caneret forti regia bella pede.”

  Domitius Marsus (51–18 BC) said by 18 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: On the Death, in the same year, of Virgil and Tibullus. Published with the corpus of Tibullus's poetry. Translated by J. B. Postgate, LCL 6 (1913)

• “Tene magis salvum populus velit an populum tu? servet in ambiguo, qui consulit et tibi et Urbi, Iuppiter.”

  Lucius Varius Rufus (74–14 BC) said by 14 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: From Panegyricus Augusti, quoted by Horace, Epistles, I, xvi, 27; , Satires, Epistles and Ars Poëtica (1869); see also: Norbert Guterman, A Book of Latin Quotations (1966), p. 118

• “Nequaquam nobis divinitus esse paratam naturam rerum; tanta stat praedita culpa.”

  Lucretius (94–55 BC) said by 55 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Vir Romanorum eruditissimus.”

  Marcus Terentius Varro (116–27 BC) said by 27 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Marmoreo Licinus tumulo jacet, at Cato parvo, Pompeius nullo. Quis putet esse deos? Saxa premunt Licinum, levat altum Fama Catonem, Pompeium tituli. Credimus esse deos.”

  Varro Atacinus (82–36 BC) said by 36 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: The first two lines are an epigram from the Latin Anthology in reference to the magnificent tomb of one Licinus, the slave and steward of Julius Caesar. The two lines in answer are of more recent origin. — H. T. Riley, …

• “To sail is necessary, to live is not.”

  Pompey (106–48 BC) said by 48 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source