Sulla Quotes

8 quotes from Sulla — Roman general and dictator who marched on Rome twice and restructured the Roman Republic's constitution..

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“No friend ever served me, and no enemy ever wronged me, whom I have not repaid in full.”
— Self-written epitaph, as quoted in Heroes of History: A Brief History of Civilization from Ancient Times to the Dawn of the Modern Age (2001) by Will DurantRevenge

“How is this? Ought not the petitioner to speak first, and the conqueror to listen in silence?”
— To Mithridates VI of Pontus at a peace conference, as quoted in Plutarch's LivesLeadership

“I forgive the many for the sake of the few, the living for the dead.”
— On calling an end to the sacking of Athens, as quoted in The Story of Rome: From the Earliest Times to the Death of Augustus (1900) by Mary MacgregorMercy

“He ought to have worked at the oar before steering the vessel.”
— Upon being handed the head of his enemy Gaius Marius the YoungerExperience

“No friend ever served me, and no enemy ever wronged me, whom I have not repaid in full.”
— Self-written epitaph, as quoted in Heroes of History: A Brief History of Civilization from Ancient Times to the Dawn of the Modern Age (2001) by Will DurantRevenge

“How is this? Ought not the petitioner to speak first, and the conqueror to listen in silence?”
— To Mithridates VI of Pontus at a peace conference, as quoted in Plutarch's LivesLeadership

“I forgive the many for the sake of the few, the living for the dead.”
— On calling an end to the sacking of Athens, as quoted in The Story of Rome: From the Earliest Times to the Death of Augustus (1900) by Mary MacgregorMercy

“He ought to have worked at the oar before steering the vessel.”
— Upon being handed the head of his enemy Gaius Marius the YoungerWisdom

Sulla Quotes

8 quotes from Sulla — Roman general and dictator who marched on Rome twice and restructured the Roman Republic's constitution..

Read the full Sulla playbook →

“No friend ever served me, and no enemy ever wronged me, whom I have not repaid in full.”
— Self-written epitaph, as quoted in Heroes of History: A Brief History of Civilization from Ancient Times to the Dawn of the Modern Age (2001) by Will DurantRevenge

“How is this? Ought not the petitioner to speak first, and the conqueror to listen in silence?”
— To Mithridates VI of Pontus at a peace conference, as quoted in Plutarch's LivesLeadership

“I forgive the many for the sake of the few, the living for the dead.”
— On calling an end to the sacking of Athens, as quoted in The Story of Rome: From the Earliest Times to the Death of Augustus (1900) by Mary MacgregorMercy

“He ought to have worked at the oar before steering the vessel.”
— Upon being handed the head of his enemy Gaius Marius the YoungerExperience

“No friend ever served me, and no enemy ever wronged me, whom I have not repaid in full.”
— Self-written epitaph, as quoted in Heroes of History: A Brief History of Civilization from Ancient Times to the Dawn of the Modern Age (2001) by Will DurantRevenge

“How is this? Ought not the petitioner to speak first, and the conqueror to listen in silence?”
— To Mithridates VI of Pontus at a peace conference, as quoted in Plutarch's LivesLeadership

“I forgive the many for the sake of the few, the living for the dead.”
— On calling an end to the sacking of Athens, as quoted in The Story of Rome: From the Earliest Times to the Death of Augustus (1900) by Mary MacgregorMercy

“He ought to have worked at the oar before steering the vessel.”
— Upon being handed the head of his enemy Gaius Marius the YoungerWisdom