Sulla Quotes
9 quotes from Sulla — Roman general and dictator who marched on Rome twice and restructured the Roman Republic's constitution..
“No friend ever served me, and no enemy ever wronged me, whom I have not repaid in full.”
“How is this? Ought not the petitioner to speak first, and the conqueror to listen in silence?”
“I forgive the many for the sake of the few, the living for the dead.”
“He ought to have worked at the oar before steering the vessel.”
“He underwent a complete change as soon as he betook himself to good-fellowship and drinking, so that comic singers and dancers found him anything but ferocious.”
“In this Caesar there are many Mariuses.”
“No friend ever did him a kindness, and no enemy a wrong, without being fully repaid.”
“He underwent a complete change as soon as he betook himself to good-fellowship and drinking, so that comic singers and dancers found him anything but ferocious. It was this laxity which produced in him a diseased propensity to amorous indulgence and an unrestrained voluptuousness, from which he did not refrain even in his old age.”
“Sulla did not know his ABC's.”
