Cicero quotes - page 20

An agreement of rash men (a conspiracy). Consensus audacium. (Cicero)
A youth of sensuality and intemperance delivers over to old age a worn-out body.
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Socrates was the first to call philosophy down from the heavens and to place it in cities, and even to introduce it into homes and compel it to inquire about life and standards and goods and evils.
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I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet.
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Inhumanity is harmful in every age. Inhumanitas omni aetate molesta est.
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Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts, it is something celestial and divine.
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Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art.
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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.
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No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.
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No sensible man ever imputes inconsistency to another for changing his mind.
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The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is true. Moreover, there shall be no suspicion of partiality in his writing, or of malice. (Cicero)
Fungus una nocte nascitar.
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For laws are silent among arms.
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The greatest states have been overthrown by the young and sustained and restored by the old. ... Rashness is the product of the budding-time of youth, prudence of the harvest-time of age.
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And we recently discovered, if it was not known before, that no amount of power can withstand the hatred of the many. The death of this tyrant (Julius Caesar), whose yoke the state endured under the constraint of armed force and whom it still obeys more humbly than ever, though he is dead, illustrates the deadly effects of popular hatred; and the same lesson is taught by the similar fate of all other despots, of whom practically no one has ever escaped such a death. For fear is but a poor safeguard of lasting power; while affection, on the other hand, may be trusted to keep it safe for ever.
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