Scipio Quotes

#1. In the end, Scipio and Salvadore were condemned to a gruesome death. They were to be hanged, decapitated, and quartered. As a deterrent to potential conspirators, each man's head and body parts were to be displayed in different counties.17

Sylviane A. Diouf

#2. They wouldn't tell Scipio how much of the counterfeit cash was left since, as Riccio put it, 'You're a detective now, after all.

Cornelia Funke

#3. Every great man is a unique. The Scipionism of Scipio is precisely that part he could not borrow.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#4. Polybius managed to attach himself to the clan and person of Scipio Aemilianus, grandson of one of the two losing consuls at Cannae,

Robert L. O'Connell

#5. Great Pompey's shade complains that we are slow, And Scipio's ghost walks unaveng'd amongst us!

Joseph Addison

#6. Lady Aquitaine sighed. Then it all hinges on Scipio. He has a rather irritating talent for impersonating a fulcrum.

Jim Butcher

#7. Caligula - And what has Nature done for you?

Scipio - It consoles me for not being. Ceasar.

Caligula - Really? And do you think Nature could console me for being Ceasar?

Scipio - Why not? Nature has healed worse wounds than that.

Albert Camus

#8. The history of Rome presents various men of greater genius than Scipio Aemilianus, but none equalling him in moral purity, in the utter absence of political selfishness, in generous love of his country, and none, perhaps, to whom destiny has assigned a more tragic part.

Theodor Mommsen

#9. My dear Scipio and Laelius. Men, of course, who have no resources in themselves for securing a good and happy life find every age burdensome. But those who look for all happiness from within can never think anything bad which Nature makes inevitable.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#10. Go, therefore, to meet the foe with two objects before you, either victory or death. For men animated by such a spirit must always overcome their adversaries, since they go into battle ready to throw away their lives.

Scipio Africanus

#11. It is the part of a fool to say, I should not have thought.

Scipio Africanus

#12. I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone.

Scipio Africanus

#13. Through Jesus we don't need perfect righteousness, just repentant helplessness, to access the presence of God.

Timothy Keller

#14. More often than not, I find identity politics to be defined narrowly in progressive circles. This can limit our work to build coalitions and solidarity across communities and movements because this leads us to simply replicate all that we want to eradicate in the world.

Daisy Hernandez

#15. The point of civilization is to be civilized; the purpose of action is to perpetuate society, for only in society can philosophy truly take place.

Iain Pears

#16. What is Love? It is a long followed companionship of two souls.

Rajasaraswathii

#17. Some of life's greatest calls were answered not by the head but by the body.

Barbara Kingsolver

#18. I had never seen much of Star Trek, or any other science fiction, before I was cast. But Seven's wonderful.

Jeri Ryan

#19. An thou let part so, Sir Andrew, would thou mightst/ never draw sword again.

William Shakespeare

#20. 6 Oh come, let us worship and bow down; let us l kneel before the LORD, our m Maker! 7. For he is our n God, and we are the people of his o pasture, and the sheep of his hand.

Anonymous

#21. I miss a lot about England when I'm working away, even the slate grey skies.

Sean Bean

#22. Legionares are not afraid of dinner," Max growled, giving the taurg a dire glare. "Dinner is afraid of legionares.

Jim Butcher

#23. Prepare for war, since you have been unable to endure a peace.

Scipio Africanus

#24. I've lived in California for six years and I've never surfed.

Bill Skarsgard