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Marcus Aurelius (121 - 180) Roman emperor from the Antonine dynasty. Philosopher, representative of late Stoicism, follower of Epictetus.

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The pattern is what we can see. What do you see in Pattern? You understand that just a cursory glance is enough and it becomes completely clear - this is not just a chaotic set of squiggles and crosses. It's a language, it's a code. How to read and understand it?

Now it is fashionable to say all sorts of words that are incomprehensible, even to scientists, such as meditation. Our ancestors simply saw the whole Universe on the Patterns. Does this universe open up to you?

An excellent example of the use of the Slavic pattern is folk embroidery. Towels, wedding valances, tablecloths, curtains, festive shirts, white canvas sundresses, light outerwear, hats and scarves were decorated with embroidery patterns.

Example: a towel is a symbolic and ambiguous product. It not only decorates everyday life, but is also a symbolic reminder of the invisible connections that connect each person with his family, ancestors, and is a subject of art. We can say that the patterns of embroidered towels are an encrypted story about the life of the people, about nature and people.

It is believed that those parts of the costume were decorated with embroidery, through which, according to our ancestors, evil forces could penetrate the human body. Hence the main meaning of embroidery in antiquity is protective. The collar, cuffs, hem, neckline were embroidered with a protective pattern. The fabric itself was considered impenetrable to evil spirits, since objects richly equipped with incantatory ornaments participated in its manufacture. Therefore, it was important to protect those places where the fabric of clothing ended and the human body began.
But main: the pattern on the clothes said a lot about the owner himself. The pattern on clothes as a talisman is not its main purpose. Your shirt is closer to the body because it is like skin, only yours, for you and about you.

Clothing was, as it were, a unique picture of its owner and carried a rich semantic load. Not only by the cut of clothes, but first of all by the pattern, one could understand where a person came from, who he was, what his type of activity was, what his spiritual status and idea of ​​the world were, and so on. And the pattern carried the security function as a matter of course. Let me give you an example - if a child goes hand in hand with his father, the father will certainly protect his child in case of danger, but this has nothing to do with where they go and what they talk about along the way.

Children's clothes were usually sewn from old clothes of parents - not only and not so much because it has already been washed many times and therefore soft, will not hurt, will not rub the child's skin, but because it has absorbed parental energy and strength, and will protect it with it. , will save the child from the evil eye, damage, misfortunes. The girl's clothes were sewn from the mother's, the boy, of course, from the father's, thus prejudging the correct development depending on the sex - the girl was given the power of motherhood, the boy - the male power.

When the children grew up and already acquired some kind of their own protective power, they relied on his first shirt, from novelty. This was usually timed to coincide with the time of the first age initiation - at three years. From the age of twelve, the girl received the right to wear her own (albeit still girlish) clothes, for the boy relied on the first pants-ports.

Since for children under three years of age the clothes were often altered from the parental ones, the protective embroidery, of course, remained the same, parental. It was not only inconvenient and impractical to change it, but also impractical - after all, it provided, in addition to the protective function also the connection of generations, kinship and continuity. So, if the child's father was a hunter, then the amulets on his clothes were associated with hunting, and it was they who were transferred to the boy with these clothes. In the same way, the craft was “transferred” to the girl along the female line. Or rather, not the craft itself, but the strength of many years of parental experience in it protected the child. Everyone protects in their own way, right? The weaver will protect the fabric with a special pattern, the spinner - with nauzes, the hunter - with the fang of an animal ... And the result will be the same.

But the protective embroidery for the child's own clothes already differed from the amulets of adults. Firstly, the color of the embroidery for children was always red, while for adult clothes it could be different. So, women often used in embroidery, in addition to red, black - the color of mother earth, thus trying to protect their womb from infertility. Men, on the other hand, often needed blue or green colors for a talisman - blue protected from death from the elements, green from wounds. The kids didn't have it. It was believed that children are under the care and protection of a kind. On the shirt of a girl-girl, embroidery mainly went along the hem, sleeves and necklace, and on a married woman - chest, collar, embroidery along the hem was wider - it also reflected a new relationship, belonging to the husband's family.

The main protective symbols for the girl were: the patron goddess of fate, gender symbol, wood ornaments, a symbol of the patron saint of her birthday, symbols of the earth (again, different from the female symbols of the earth - for those, it basically seemed to be either plowed up or already sown) and women's crafts.

Boys (like girls) up to the age of twelve wore shirts without belts. The main symbols protecting the boys were considered: symbols of fire, solar symbols, images of totem animals, of course, also patron family symbol and the patron spirit of the birthday, bells, bells and symbols of men's crafts.

Until the age of majority, boys and girls could also wear common amulets. Passing initiation at the age of twelve, the boy's amulets changed, became (like the girl's) more gender-specific. A belt appeared and, of course, there were fewer amulets - after all, their own strength grew.

Images of the Gods already appeared in embroidery, not so much for protection, but for patronage, for young girls - symbols of fertility, for young boys - military ones. Of course, neither the girl nor the boy needed them. In addition to embroidery on clothes, many items often served as children's amulets that were hung over a baby's cradle, a girl's or boy's bed, then worn on the shoulder or on the belt. All this performed not only protective and protective functions, but also served as a link between man and Nature.

patterns

Often, ancient masters depicted signs that denoted the sun. These are solar signs. The sun has received a great variety of image options over the millennia. These include a variety of crosses - both in a circle and without it. Some crosses in a circle are very similar to the image of a wheel, and this is no accident: a person saw how the sun moved, that is, "rolled" across the sky, like a fiery wheel. The perpetual motion of the heavenly body was marked with a hooked cross, a swastika. The swastika meant not only the moving sun, but also the wish for well-being. Especially often it is found in northern embroideries like towels and shirts, as well as in swearing weaving.

Charm patterns

The essence of the amulets exactly corresponds to their name: their calling is to protect people, especially during the years of hard times, during periods of military conflicts and other adversities. In other words, to protect its owner from any directed negative impact, whatever it may be and wherever it comes from. Negative influences can be purely physical influences - such as diseases (caused, by the way, often not only by natural causes, but also overcome us due to the evil eye or damage). Amulets can protect their owner from any impact on his psyche, soul, and emotional sphere. They will protect you from the imposition of someone else's will, love spells, suggestions from the outside and from severe depression.

The impact of amulets is associated with the colors of the spectrum of the human aura. Putting on an amulet of the appropriate color, we get the opportunity to quickly patch up energy breakdowns in one or another part of the aura, which can be dangerous to our health and even life. From the point of view of a person who is able to see the aura, it will look like an increase in the glow of a certain color of the aura when putting on the amulet.

Signs

1. The wavy line is the sign of Water. Rain is depicted by vertical lines, rivers, groundwater - horizontal, "heavenly abysses" - horizontal.
2. Thunderbolt (six-pointed cross in a circle or hexagon). Sign of Thunder (and Perun). Used as a talisman against lightning; is also a military amulet.
3. A square (or rhombus) divided by a cross into four parts - (plowed field). If there are dots inside - a sown field. These are signs of the Earth and fertility.
4. Kolokres (a cross in a circle). Sun sign. a barrier and aversion of evil, a sign of closeness.
5. Krada ("lattice") is a sign of Fire. Krada is a sacrificial or funeral pyre.
6. Kres (an equilateral cross: straight or oblique) is a sign of Fire (and the God of Fire - Aguni).
7. Month - Sign of the moon, the month. Known pendants "moon".
8. A cockscomb with seven protrusions is a sign of Fire.
9. Cornucopia. Sign of wealth, abundance.
10. Yarga (swastika). Otherwise - a bell. There are a huge number of font options. Yarga is a sign of the Sun (and, accordingly, the Gods of the Sun: Khors, Dazhdbog, etc.). According to the direction of rotation (salting / anti-sun), the sign of the bright Sun (Yavi sun) and the sign of the dark Sun (Navi sun) are distinguished. The Sun of Reveal is a beneficent, creative Force; The Sun of Navi is a destructive Force. According to Slavic myths, after sunset, the Sun illuminated the Underground (Nav), hence the name. We know that the Sun is not under the Earth at night, but it is difficult to doubt that the Sun has a destructive aspect... There are two interpretations of determining the direction of rotation of a sign; the traditional one, as far as I know, is this: the ends of the rays are bent against the direction of rotation.
11. A tree (most often a Christmas tree) is a symbol of the interconnection of everything in the world, a symbol of long life.
12. The spiral is a symbol of wisdom; if the color scheme is blue-violet - intimate knowledge. The most powerful repulsive sign for all the dark entities of the shadow world - if the color is red, white or black.
13. The triangle is a symbol of a person; especially if accompanied by small dots or circles from the top. Symbol of human communication.

Gods

Woman with raised palms: Makosh.
With omitted: Lada.

From an unusual side, this image is revealed in the article "Ivan. Kupala etymology"

Animals

1. The bull is a sign of Veles.
2. The wolf is a sign of Yarila.
3. Raven is a sign of wisdom and death.
4. The tree is a sign of life and fertility; or - the Universe (World Tree).
5. The serpent is a sign of the Earth, wisdom. Associated with the Underworld.
6. The horse is a sign of the Sun, the Solar Gods.
7. The swan is a sign of Mary, death, winter.
8. The bear is a sign of Veles.
9. A deer (vazhenka) or a moose cow is a sign of the Goddesses of Fertility (Rozhanitsa).
10. The eagle is a sign of Thunder, Perun.
11. Rooster is a sign of Fire, Aguni.
12. Falcon is a sign of Fire, Aguni. There is an opinion that the "trident" (the coat of arms of the Rurikids and modern Ukraine) is a stylized image of a falcon in flight.

Colors

Specifically, the colors of the amulet are associated with the protection of one of the seven human chakras. Red - for the lowest, located in the coccyx area and responsible for the genitourinary system, rectum, musculoskeletal system. Orange - for the second, located a few fingers below the navel, responsible for sexual energy and the kidneys. Yellow - for the third chakra (solar plexus area) - the center of vital energy, which is also responsible for all the organs of the abdominal cavity. Green is for the fourth, heart chakra. It controls the activity of not only the heart, but also the lungs, spine, hands, and is responsible for our emotions. Blue - for the fifth, throat, responsible for the respiratory and hearing organs, throat and skin, as well as human creativity. Blue is for the sixth (the "third eye" zone), which is responsible for our intellectual abilities. Violet - for the seventh (temechko), connecting us with the Higher powers, with God.

1. White. Associated with the idea of ​​Light, purity and sacredness (White Light, White King - king over kings, etc.); at the same time - the color of Death, mourning.
2. Red is Fire, (and the Sun is like heavenly Fire), blood (life force).
3. Green - Vegetation, Life.
4. Black is Earth.
5. Golden - Sun.
6. Blue - Sky, Water.
7. Purple is rarely seen in Russian embroidery.

Rule the people with dignity and the people will be respectful. Treat people kindly, and people will work hard. Exalt the virtuous and instruct the unlearned, and people will trust you.

Confucius

The best ruler is the one about whom the people know only that he exists.

Lao Tzu

The secret of good government: let the ruler be the ruler, the subject be the subject, the father be the father, and the son be the son.

Confucius

If he himself is direct, then they will do everything without orders. And if he himself is not direct, then they will not obey, even if they are ordered.

Confucius

To do good and hear evil is the lot of kings.

Antisthenes of Athens

The sovereign does not need to possess all the virtues, but there is a direct need to appear to possess them.

Niccolo Machiavelli

A good ruler is justly likened to a coachman.

Kozma Prutkov

Those who knew how to acquire sensible people by meeting peoples capable of political life were able to keep their empires in the greatest flowering for a very long time.

Jean Bodin

Small errors seem big if they are found in the behavior of those who are entrusted with power.

Plutarch

People, believing that the new ruler will be better, willingly rebel against the old, but soon they are convinced by experience that they were deceived, because the new ruler always turns out to be worse than the old one.

Niccolo Machiavelli

The sovereign's words should not diverge from deeds. If the sovereign says one thing and does another, then the people can also double-deal. In this case, friends will be split, and enemies united.

Ahmad Mahdum bin Nosir Donish

The ruler's mind is first judged by the kind of people he brings closer to himself.

Niccolo Machiavelli

He who commands must sometimes obey, and he who obeys with dignity deserves to command in the future.

Cicero

The main thing for the ruler, if not the law, then the art of management.

Han Feizi

The whole science of government comes down to the ability to gild the pill.

Adolphe Thiers

The ruler can be compared to a boat, and the people - to water: water can carry a boat, or it can overturn it.

Xun Tzu

To comprehend the essence of the people, one must be a sovereign, and in order to comprehend the nature of sovereigns, one must belong to the people.

Niccolo Machiavelli

A ruler who is clear of his own hostile intentions cannot deceive everyone with his pretense.

Elias Canetti

A king who fills his treasury with the property of his subjects is like one who smears the roof of his house with clay taken from under its foundation.

As-Samarkandi

Absolutism requires from the ruler, first of all, impartiality, honesty, fidelity to one's duty, efficiency and modesty.

Otto von Bismarck

To rule does not mean to rule, but to fulfill a duty.

Posidonius

A king may be a nobleman, but not a gentleman.

Edmund Burke

Study people, try to use them without entrusting yourself to them indiscriminately, look for true dignity, even if it be at the end of the world: for the most part it is modest and (hiding somewhere) in the distance. Valor does not climb out of the crowd, is not greedy, does not fuss and allows you to forget about yourself.

Catherine II

"Divide and conquer" is a wise rule, but "unite and guide" is even better.

Johann Wolfgang Goethe

Be the first executor of your orders.

Claudian Claudius

Is it proper for a king, if he is slapped on the cheek, to turn the other? How can the king manage the kingdom if he allows dishonor over himself?

Ivan IV Vasilyevich the Terrible

If you rule on the basis of virtue, settle according to ritual, the people will not only be ashamed, but will also express humility.

Confucius

Every potentant (i.e. ruler) who has a single land army has one hand, and who also has a fleet has both hands.

Peter I the Great

Kings deal with people as with coins: they give them a price as they please, and they have to be valued at the rate, and not at the real price.

François de La Rochefoucauld

When a good monarch sits on the throne, it's time to legislate against the lawlessness of power.

Joseph Addison

Unjust power is short-lived.

There is no more cruel misfortune in human destiny than when the rulers of the earth are not the first among their subjects. And then everything becomes false, perverse, terrifying.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is easier to conquer than to rule. With the appropriate lever, one can shake the world with one finger, but Hercules' shoulders are needed to keep it going.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

It is easier to hold the reins than the reins.

Kozma Prutkov

A sensible ruler is always patient, And he knows how to hold back the tide of anger.

Saadi

Being placed in power, do not use crafty people in your positions, for if they sin, they will blame you as the boss.

Solon

If I were king, I wouldn't trust aces too much.

Tristan Bernard

A leader without the masses is nothing, a fiction.

Hannah Arendt

The rulers believe that only they should survive.

Elias Canetti

Simple common sense guides better than false scientific constructs.

Henri Claude de Rouvroy Saint-Simon

A monarch who is unwilling to overcome the difficulty of understanding is forced to overcome the danger of trust.

George Savile Halifax

Governance is a cruel occupation. Good character in such a case is only a hindrance.

George Savile Halifax

Show confidence only to those who have the courage to cross you on occasion and who prefer your good name to your grace.

Catherine II

The board is a correction. Who dares not to improve when you yourself are corrected?

Confucius

In order to govern a state that has a thousand war chariots, you need to be prudent, truthful, moderate in needs, love the people, know the time when you can involve the people in the performance of duties.

No one can justly govern others if he is not able to put a bridle on his own passions, if he is unjust, cowardly and weak, if he is reluctant to give from his own to people who are respectable but needy.

Andrzej Modzhevsky

If there is no law, then serve as an example to your subjects - and you will leave an inescapable memory of your reign.

Basil I the Macedonian

Spare the conquered, curb the recalcitrant.

Virgil Maron Publius

Only that one is worthy of being a leader, To whom both honor and life are given blindly by a warrior.

Jean Racine

How can a tree bloom if its roots have dried up? So it is here: until there is proper order in the kingdom, where will military courage come from? If the leader does not constantly strengthen the army, then he is more likely to be defeated than a winner. You, having despised all this, praise only courage, and on what courage is based - it does not matter to you.

Ivan IV Vasilyevich the Terrible

The fate of a people is not strong when it depends on the will, or rather, on the temper of one person.

Mark Tullius Cicero

To manage people, you need a head: for playing chess, good-heartedness alone is not enough.

Nicola Sebastian Chamfort

Many things are forbidden to Caesar precisely because everything is allowed to him.

Seneca Lucius Annaeus (the Younger)

Those who have left the stage often go to prompters.

Alexander Cumor

There are no good masters.

Antonio Miro

Be gentle, philanthropic, accessible, compassionate and generous, let your greatness not prevent you from good-naturedly condescending to small people and putting yourself in their position, so that this kindness never diminishes either your power or their respect. Listen to everything that deserves attention, let everyone see that you think and feel the way you should think and feel. Act in such a way that good people love you, evil people are afraid and everyone respects you.

Catherine II

To hunt hares, you need a lot of dogs, to defeat enemies - a lot of warriors, who, having reason, will execute his subjects without reason!

Ivan IV Vasilyevich the Terrible

Who will remain unharmed serving kings and approaching them? Rulers are like a wicked harlot who gets along with many men.

John of Damascus

Karl Raimund Popper

A good shepherd removes the wool from the sheep, not the skin.

Suetonius

Peace, campaign, war and fortifications, Separation of forces and friendship with the strong - These are the six ways of the policy of the rulers.

Bhasa

In order to preserve your kingdom in virtue, what you forbid others to do, never do it yourself: it is terrible for subjects to learn about the atrocities of the authorities.

Basil I the Macedonian

He who teaches that love, not reason, should rule, paves the way for those who are convinced that hatred should rule.

Karl Raimund Popper

If you improve yourself, will it be difficult to govern the state? If you cannot improve yourself, how can you improve other people?

Confucius

An outstanding statesman is a person who is able to realize the openness of the system, to understand the meaning of what can be called circumstances and an auspicious moment.

Paul Ricoeur

It is fitting for Caesar to die standing.

Suetonius

With the change of ruler, nothing changes for the poor, except for the name of the master.

Monarchs love to make friends with all sorts of rabble. It's in their blood.

Edmund Burke

The ruler is not so easy to push from first place to second, as then from second to last.

Julius Caesar

It is easier to change the king than the retinue.

Arkady Davidovich

It is necessary that the rulers do not despise the little ones who are under them: after all, the small are no longer small when they are useful to the great.

John of Damascus

If those in power do not guard the social institutions that enable the minority to effect peaceful change, then their rule is tyranny.

Karl Raimund Popper

If the whole country around you is in poverty, the wealth of the ruler, granted by Heaven, also disappears.

The sovereign is not free to choose his people, but is free to choose to know, for his right is to punish and pardon, bring closer and disgrace.

Niccolo Machiavelli

The king is created by a retinue or a neighboring state.

Antonio Miro

No kings are known to have ruled the kingdom happily continuously.

Bhartriari

Peter is not only the first Russian intellectual, but also the first Russian nihilist.

Dmitry Sergeevich Merezhkovsky

Keep in yourself those great spiritual qualities that make up the distinctive identity of an honest person, a great person and a hero. Beware of any artificiality. May the contagion of vulgarity not darken your ancient taste for honor and valor.

Catherine II

Napoleon not without reason hated ideologues, and dictators, obeying the general rule, hate philosophers.

Jacques Maritain

Keeping people from growing old is the great art of management.

Napoleon I

The good of the people is the highest law.

The great art of subjugating people lies in the ability to take them on their good side.

Honore Gabriel Ricchetti Mirabeau

Only then take power into your hands when you learn to obey.

Solon

The best day after the death of a bad sovereign is the first day.

Tacitus

All monarchs are political tyrants, all subjects are rebels at heart.

Edmund Burke

The more the throne wobbles, the fewer people want to support it.

Arkady Davidovich

The rulers have programs of action, which, however, cannot be put into practice without the support of the ruled.

Raymond Claude Ferdinand Aron

I believe that it is much more useful for citizens when the whole state prospers than when individuals live in contentment, while the whole is destroyed.

The ruler never truly forgives.

Elias Canetti

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Reasonable people are often hated by powerful rulers.

Erasmus of Rotterdam

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Whoever was a good squire will be able to be a good governor.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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There are two levers that can move people: fear and self-interest.

Napoleon I

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The one who, not knowing how to control himself, wants to control others is insane.

Publius Sir Catherine II

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Whoever thinks he is in charge, he is in control.

Semyon Ludwigovich Frank

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It has long been noticed that people of a mediocre mind and poor in spirit consider themselves worthy and called to rule the state. With amazing energy and perseverance they rush forward, and the most diligent of them manage to achieve the goal.

Chabua Iraklievich Amirejibi

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No matter what the crazy kings do, the Achaeans suffer.

Horace

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Mao Zedong can be called the last emperor.

Mircea Eliade

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While ruling, the leaders are solely concerned with making their predictions true.

Hannah Arendt

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The ruler, on whose existence the existence of others depends, puts between himself and others the greatest and most insurmountable distance, it is thanks to her, and not only to his brilliance, that he is the Sun or, like the Chinese, even more distant - the Sky.

Elias Canetti

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Of those who are near you, encourage not those who exalt everything you have done, but those who scold you severely for your mistakes.

Basil I the Macedonian

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It’s bad if Tsar Eagle is among carrion, but if he himself is carrion among eagles - write wasted!

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

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What a monument to human insignificance is the idea of ​​a philosopher-ruler! What a fall - from the Socratic world of irony, reason and honesty to the Platonic kingdom of leaders.

Karl Raimund Popper

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Wise and capable people should be promoted to positions regardless of their position, lazy and incapable people should be immediately removed from office, the main villains should be executed without waiting for their re-education, ordinary, average people should be educated without waiting for the punishment to be applied to them .

Xun Tzu

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I am either a fox or a lion. The whole secret of management is knowing when to be one or the other.

Napoleon I

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The inclination towards absolutist rule is in direct proportion to contempt for one's own country.

[Lucius Vitellius] exclaimed, congratulating [emperor] Claudius on the centenary games: “I wish you to celebrate them more than once!”

Tiberius Gracchus

When the Lusitanians told Tiberius Gracchus that they had food for ten years and therefore they were not afraid of a siege, Gracchus said: “So I will conquer you in the eleventh year.” (...) The Lusitans (...) immediately surrendered.

Domitius Afr

A sovereign who wants to know everything will be faced with the need to forgive a lot.

Domitius Corbulo

The enemy must be defeated with an ax (i.e., military installations).

Cato the Younger (Mark Porcius Cato Jr.)

Time (…) exhausts the power of any tyranny.

Caesar alone of all takes on a coup d'état sober.

Some suggested entrusting the supreme oversight of the elections to Pompey, Cato (...) objected, saying that it was not the laws that needed to seek protection from Pompey, but Pompey from the laws.

Some unreasonable person, not recognizing Mark Cato [the Younger], beat him in the bath: knowingly no one would raise his hand to offend such a man! When the man later came to ask for forgiveness, Cato replied, "I don't remember being beaten."

Lucullus (Licinius Lucullus)

When one day he [Lucullus] was dining alone, and one table and a modest meal were prepared for him, he became angry and called the slave assigned to this matter; he replied that since the guests were not invited, he did not think that it was necessary to prepare an expensive dinner, to which his master said: “How, did you not know that today Lucullus treats Lucullus?”

Quintus Caecilius Metellus (Metellus of Macedon)

One of the young tribunes asked him [Caecilius Metellus] what his intentions were. He replied: "If even my shirt knew them, I would immediately throw it into the fire."

Lucius Mummius (Mummy of Achaea)

[Consul Lucius Mummius] was so ignorant that when, after the capture of Corinth, he loaded paintings and statues made by the hands of the greatest masters for shipment to Italy, he ordered that the escorts be warned that if they lost them, they would have to return new ones.

Passion Crisp

Crispus Passien, the subtlest person in all respects I have ever met in my life, who was especially subtle in vices, used to say that before flattery we do not lock the doors, but only slightly close them, as we do before the arrival of a beloved; we are pleased if she comes and opens the door; it is even more pleasant if it completely smashes it to pieces on its way.

When Gaius [Caligula] asked him in private whether Passien cohabited with his own sister, like himself, Passien replied: “Not yet,” very decently and carefully so as not to offend the emperor with a denial and not disgrace himself with a false confirmation.

There has never been a better slave or a worse master. (Passien Crispus on Caligula).

Pompey the Great (Gnaeus Pompey (Magnus))

The rising sun has more worshipers than the setting sun.

[Once, when Pompey needed to urgently sail to Rome,] a storm arose, and the helmsmen did not dare to weigh anchor. Then Pompey was the first to board the ship and, having ordered the anchor to be dropped, he exclaimed: “It is necessary to sail, but not to live!”

Of himself, he [Pompey] boldly said that he received all power earlier than he himself expected, and composed it earlier than others expected.

Cato severely reproached him for the fact that he [Pompey] did not obey him, Cato, warnings that it would not be good for the republic to increase the power of Caesar; Pompey replied, "You were more of a prophet, I was more of a friend."

Either win or die free. (Pompey, waging war against Caesar.)

Publius

Publius, seeing Mucius, a very unfriendly man, more sad than usual, said: “Either something unpleasant happened to Mucius, or, I don’t know with whom, something good.”

Sulla (Lucius Cornelius Sulla)

Sulla (...) once at a meeting, when a bad street poet threw him a notebook with an epigram written in honor of Sulla (...), he immediately ordered the poet to be awarded an award (...), but with the condition that he no longer write anything!

Scipio Africanus the Elder (Publius Cornelius Spiceon)

I never do more than when I'm doing nothing, and I'm never less alone than when I'm alone.

Scipio the Elder spent his free time from military and state affairs in academic pursuits, saying that in his spare time he had a lot to do.

Appius Claudius, competing with him [Scipio the Elder] for censorship, boasted that he himself greeted every Roman citizen by name, and Scipio knew almost no one. “You are right,” said Scipio, “I tried not to know everyone, but to make everyone know me.”

Scipio Africanus the Younger (Publius Cornelius Spiceon Emilianus)

A good commander, like a good doctor, takes up the blade only when absolutely necessary.

Neither shall Rome fall while Scipio stands, nor shall Scipio live when Rome falls.

Scipio Africanus [the Younger], (...) when some said that he did not participate in the battles much, said: "Mother gave birth to me as a ruler, not a grunt."

Someone (…) showed him [Scipio the Younger] a shield with fine decoration. “An excellent shield,” said Scipio, “only the Roman is more accustomed to rely not on what is in his left hand, but on what is in his right.”

Tarquinius (Lucius Tarquinius the Proud)

In exile, [king] Tarquinius said that he had learned to distinguish true friends from false ones only now, when he was no longer able to repay one or the other according to their merits.

Guy Fabricius Luscin

When Publius Cornelius, who was considered a greedy and thieving man, but also a brave man and a good commander, thanked Gaius Fabricius for the fact that he, his enemy, nominated him to the consuls, and even during a big and difficult war, Fabricius said: “You don’t need me thank you, I just preferred to be robbed than sold into slavery.