Pompey

Military General Ancient Rome 106 – 48

Roman general and statesman whose rivalry with Caesar led to civil war.

385 quotes

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but action despite its presence."
Courage
"Those who seek power through cruelty will find it briefly and lose it completely."
Justice
"The strongest bonds are often forged through honest disagreement."
Relationships
"A state without internal peace cannot project external strength."
Peace
"Knowledge without application is merely the collection of trivialities."
Education
"The man who never doubts his convictions has ceased to think."
Truth
"Ambition unchecked by principle becomes tyranny."
Leadership
"History records the actions of great men; it forgets their uncertainties."
History
"The measure of a civilization is not its weapons, but its treatment of the defeated."
"To love power more than justice is to love a phantom."
Love
"The true warrior seeks not victory, but resolution."
War
"Strength without compassion is mere brutality wearing a crown."
Strength
"The greatest strategic advantage is understanding what your opponent values most."
"A man's character is revealed not in his triumphs, but in how he accepts defeat."
"The pursuit of freedom without responsibility leads to chaos."
Freedom
"Those who live only for themselves die having lived for nothing."
Life
"The cost of victory is sometimes higher than the value of the prize."
Wisdom
"A nation survives not by the strength of its armies, but by the wisdom of its counsel."
Politics
"The man who trusts no one has learned a bitter lesson from betrayal."
"To forgive an enemy is sometimes the greatest victory of all."
"The path to greatness is often paved with the small choices we make daily."
Success
"Power that relies on fear is power that lives in constant peril."
Power
"The true test of leadership is how one treats those who can offer nothing in return."
Leadership
"A wise man knows that every victory contains the seeds of future conflict."
Wisdom
"The bonds of kinship are strengthened through duty, not merely sentiment."
Family
"To command men, one must first master oneself."
"The greatest conquest is the conquest of one's own pride."
"A strategy that relies on luck is no strategy at all."
"The pursuit of happiness through others' misery is a path to eternal unhappiness."
Happiness
"In the end, we are remembered not for what we possessed, but for what we gave."
Gratitude