By force of arms.
(Vi Et Armis)
Cicero
Related
Force overcome by force.
(Vi Victa Vis)
CICERO Les hommes extrêmement heureux, et les hommes extrêmement malheureux a , sont également portés �...
MONTESQUIEU Gutta cavat lapidem, non vi, sed saepe cadendo. - A drop of water hollows a stone, not by force, but...
OVID Mig angrer av mit hjertens grund
jeg bogen skulde lære
at jeg for alt det jeg har slitt PETTER DASS J'ai perdu ma force et ma vie,
Et mes amis et ma gaieté;
J'ai perdu jusqu'à la fierté ALFRED DE MUSSET No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI VI VERI VENIVERSUM VIVUS VICI.
By the Power of Truth, I, while living, have Conquered the Un...
ALAN MOORE Aliens—if they exist—are little green men with big eyes and spindly arms or…or giant insects o...
JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.
SALLUST To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the wo...
CICERO, ORATOR, 46BC I cannot consent to be led three or four hundred leagues out of my route, without its being by force...
ZEBULON PIKE Le Chat
Viens, mon beau chat, sur mon coeur amoureux;
Retiens les griffes de...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Do not mistake the rule of force
for true power. Men are not shaped by force.
EURIPIDES Ama ne yazık ki tarihte hep aynı trajedi tekrarlanmaktadır, çünkü fikir adamları zamanı geli...
STEFAN ZWEIG probability is the very guide of life
LEONARD MLODINOW By time and toil we sever
What strength and rage could never.
[Fr., Patience et longueur de te...
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Let the force of arms give place to law and justice.
UNKNOWN Vi pripadate Ligi naroda?
-Ja pripadam cijelom svijetu, madame, reče Poirot dramatično.
AGATHA CHRISTIE Vi ste vernik?
- Jesam.
A koji je Vaš Bog?
- Budućnost.
Budućnost? Ne razumem...
DOBRICA ĆOSIć Force and not opinion is the queen of the world; but it is
opinion that uses the force.
[Fr., La ...
BLAISE PASCAL Et tu, Brute.
[You also, Brutus.]
JULIUS CAESAR Le malheur avait mis
les habits du mensonge
Ils étaient d’un beau rouge
couleur du...
JACQUES PRéVERT Who overcomes
By force, hath overcome but half his foe.
JOHN MILTON Tel est toujours le plaisir :
Il excite ceux qui en jouissent
Et comme un essaim d'abeille...
BOèCE There exists a law, not written down anywhere, but inborn in our hearts, a law which comes to us not...
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO It is one thing to speak of embracing the new, the fresh, the strange. It is another to feel that on...
GREGORY BENFORD Thanks for giving me a place to sleep last night,
and for the extra blanket.
Vi.<...
JESSICA SHIRVINGTON When twilight sleeps holding the night
In your arms you embrace me tight
Runaway hours cle...
MUNIA KHAN Ey tâlih! Ölümden de beterdir bu karanlık;
Ey aşk! O gönüller sana mâl oldular artık;<...
YAHYA KEMAL BEYATLı A vida é filha da puta,
A puta, é filha da vida...
Nunca vi tanto filho da puta,
Na...
MANUEL MARIA BARBOSA DU BOCAGE What goes on inside is just too fast and huge and all interconnected for words to do more than barel...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE I think maybe today a poem I hope
after breakfast I start trying
pulling it out of my own ...
JOHN THOMAS IDLET The old Lie:Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.
WILFRED OWEN Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms.
RON PAUL Cependant, pour les pays les plus avancés, les mesures suivantes pourront assez généralement êtr...
KARL MARX There is no power like oratory. Caesar controlled men by exciting their fears, Cicero by . . . swayi...
HENRY CLAY Some religions draw by force of arms; He would draw by force of love. The attraction would not be Hi...
FULTON J. SHEEN Chaque âge a ses plaisirs, son esprit et ses mœurs.
Un jeune homme, toujours bouillant ...
NICOLAS BOILEAU The Magic of Words.
Words yield a violent force of attraction that transforms the very force of life...
MARCO OSCAR OZ Tous les jours arrivaient des avions et sur chacun, il y avait un message.
« Gardez votre eau ...
CHRISTIANE DUCHESNE Voi che vivete sicuri
Nelle vostre tiepide case,
Voi che trovate tornando a sera
Il c...
PRIMO LEVI - Tu es et tu resteras toujours une petite-bourgeoise moraliste. Comme Camus.
- Tu es et tu res...
JEAN-MICHEL GUENASSIA UN LÂCHEUR NE GAGNE JAMAIS ET UN
GAGNEUR NE LÂCHE JAMAIS.
NAPOLEON HILL Latent brain functions can be enabled by force majeure
when we are facing the weirdness of an ...
TOBA BETA Kant’s conception of dignity is indebted to Cicero and the Roman conception of dignitas, according...
OLIVER SENSEN Cicero smiled at us. 'The art of life is to deal with problems as they arise, rather than destory on...
ROBERT HARRIS Ich stellte mir seine Gedanken als einen schnellen, schmalen Wasserstrom vor, der sich durch die Fug...
ROBERT HARRIS Le serpent qui danse
Que j'aime voir, chère indolente,
De ton corps si beau,...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Cicero talks, and people marvel; Ceasar talks and people march
WARREN BENNIS soles occidere et redire possunt:
nobis cum semel occidit breuis lux,
nox est perpetu...
CATULLUS I nord fra Paucis varre efter Kjølens rand
og efter grænsen gaar vi syd til varre
Savca....
HALLDOR A. JENSSEN The drop hollows out the stone not by strength, but by constant
falling.
[Lat., Gutta cavat lapid...
PLUTARCH Se’m desdibuixa
per l’horitzó de pluja
la teva imatge,
però et mantinc ben viva...
MIQUEL MARTí I POL The victory of humanity over man.
Humanity had conquered the inhuman.
And by w...
VICTOR HUGO Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
YUL BRYNNER By-and-by has no end.
[Lat., Modo, et modo, non habebent modum.]
SAINT AURELIUS AUGUSTINE The wounded gladiator forswears all fighting, but soon forgetting
his former wound resumes his arms...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) Wanderess, Wanderess,
emporte-nous dans un récit
de séduction et de ruse.
Héroï...
ROMAN PAYNE There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of depsair
DANTE ALIGHIERI The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and pain.
DANTE ALIGHIERI Fiat justitia et pereat mundus.
Let justice be done, though the world perish.
FERDINAND I You may build sky scrapers
Mutate leather thick skin
There is a higher power however
...
EVY MICHAELS Three Royal Air Force aeroplanes have come over to us so far with their arms and equipment.
JOHN AMERY Et ignotas animum dimittit in artes.
And he sets his mind to unknown arts.
OVID No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no gre...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI Matisse is light years ahead of VI [Eclipse Visual Interface].
MAHER MASRI Postojis u meni i prisecam se svega.
Dovoljno da ne probijes kroz srce,
dovoljno da me uni...
TAMARA STAMENKOVIC There is a place born of silence
A place where the whispers of the heart arise.
There is a...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Et l'amour, où tout est facile,
Où tout est donné dans l'instant;
Il existe au milieu d...
MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: But they are the money of fools, that val...
THOMAS HOBBES ...What are numbers knit
By force or custom? Man who man would be,
Must rule the empire of hi...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Quant à nous, nous respectons çà et là et nous épargnons partout le passé, pourvu qu'il consen...
VICTOR HUGO What was taken by force, can only be restored by force.
GAMAL ABDEL NASSER [Il ne manque cependant à l'oisiveté du sage qu'un meilleur nom, et que méditer, parler, lire, et...
JEAN DE LA BRUYèRE ...at the time, King Herbert felt that to remain safe, the kingdom needed an effective intelligence ...
JOHN FLANAGAN There is no power like that of true oratory. Caesar controlled men by exciting their fears; Cicero, ...
HENRY CLAY Sur quelque préférence une estime se fonde,
Et c'est n'estimer rien qu'estimer tout le monde.
MOLIèRE L'objectivité, vécue dans ce rêve et dans ces visions, relève de l'individuation accomplie. Elle...
C.G. JUNG Friendship is not by force but by choice.
You can never please everybody, he who aims to please...
STELLA OLADIRAN Your gentleness shall force
More than your force move us to gentleness.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Revolutionaries who come to power by force of arms usually have great crimes in their background. Le...
STEPHEN KINZER Surely the greatest mercy granted us by Providence is our ignorance of the future. Imagine if we kne...
ROBERT HARRIS Arms control is by definition a rejection of disarmament.
DAVID T. DELLINGER Lady of the silver moon
Enchantress of the night
Protect me and mine within this circle fa...
MADELYN ALT Ikke maa du heller slaa
nabokvæget brun og blaa
om de av vanvare
gjorde paa din eng ...
PETTER DASS [...] Et ma fièvre ? D'où vient-elle ?
- Allons donc, c'est un incident sans conséquence qui...
THOMAS MANN Radio was used powerfully by Josef Goebbels to disseminate Nazi propaganda, and just as powerfully b...
REBECCA MACKINNON i want to
stay curled and cosied
and chocolated....forever
in my mother’s arms.
SANOBER KHAN People sometimes ask me if it is a sin in the Church of Emacs to use vi. Using a free version of vi ...
RICHARD STALLMAN A nightmare might force you awakened.
The tough life might force you awakened.
TOBA BETA Vi läser av varandra genom ögonen, och anatomiskt är ögonen en förlängning av hjärnan. När v...
SIRI HUSTVEDT After two solid weeks of waking up in Damen's bed, wrapped in Damen's arms, you'd think I'd have gro...
ALYSON NOEL We were hooked when we woke.
We had arms for each other.
But I yearned to resume
My d...
ROMAN PAYNE Hvad er det?” spurgte Ron og pegede på et stort fad med noget, der lignede sammenkogte muslinger,...
J.K. ROWLING When love is gone, there's always justice.
And when justice is gone, there's always force.
A...
LAURIE ANDERSON Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Segui il tuo corso et lascia dir les genti
(Follow your road and let the people say)
DANTE ALIGHIERI Who can be patient in extremes? Henry Vi
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Be still and know you are loved –
Feel the arms of the universe
Rocking you to its stead...
JAY WOODMAN Forge your iron; shape it by force,
not into a flower you already know
but into what can...
JOãO CABRAL DE MELO NETO
More Cicero
Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never...
CICERO When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its less...
CICERO The most desirable thing in life after health and modest means is leisure with dignity.
CICERO It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
CICERO Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
CICERO Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.
CICERO A room without books is like a body without a soul.
CICERO Virtue is its own reward.
CICERO He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.
CICERO Man is his own worst enemy.
CICERO Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all
others.
CICERO True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can ...
CICERO He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
CICERO Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinio...
CICERO A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
CICERO Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.
CICERO Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
CICERO The causes of events are ever more interresting than the events themselves.
CICERO Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sac...
CICERO The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity.
CICERO There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
CICERO A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.
CICERO We are in bondage to the law so that we might be free.
CICERO When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
CICERO Hatred is settled anger.
CICERO There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.
CICERO There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retr...
CICERO The first duty of a man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.
CICERO Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?
CICERO Nature herself makes the wise man rich.
CICERO Endless money forms the sinews of war.
CICERO We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
CICERO The welfare of the people is the ultimate law.
(Salus Populi Suprema Est Lex)
CICERO The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong.
CICERO The people's good is the highest law.
CICERO Law stands mute in the midst of arms.
CICERO Our thoughts are free.
CICERO Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor ...
CICERO Let your desires be ruled by reason.
(Appetitus Rationi Pareat)
CICERO Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
CICERO The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brute...
CICERO While there's life, there's hope.
CICERO History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory...
CICERO Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
CICERO We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.
CICERO Such praise coming from so degraded a source, was degrading to me, its recipient.
CICERO The freedom of poetic license.
CICERO There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.
CICERO The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference betw...
CICERO Let the punishment match the offense.
CICERO A friend is, as it were, a second self.
CICERO When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson...
CICERO What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.
CICERO We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist a...
CICERO To each his own.
(Suum Cuique)
CICERO To be content with what one has is the greatest and truest of riches.
CICERO The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, ...
CICERO Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education wit...
CICERO Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts. it is something celestial and divine.
CICERO No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.
CICERO The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorit...
CICERO The avarice of the old: it's absurd to increase one's luggage as one nears the journey's end.
CICERO What a time! What a civilization!
CICERO When you have no basis of argument, abuse the plaintiff.
CICERO By doubting we come at truth.
CICERO To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child. For what is man's lifeti...
CICERO I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.
CICERO It is a true saying that "One falsehood leads easily to another".
CICERO It is a great thing to know our vices.
CICERO In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe ...
CICERO In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for hon...
CICERO If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, plac...
CICERO I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than c...
CICERO He removes the greatest ornament of friendship, who takes away from it respect.
CICERO Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
CICERO Force overcome by force.
(Vi Victa Vis)
CICERO Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form r...
CICERO As the old proverb says "Like readily consorts with like."
CICERO Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.
CICERO All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.
CICERO Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.
CICERO A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultiva...
CICERO A life of peace, purity, and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.
CICERO A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
CICERO Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without...
CICERO To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.
CICERO Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regula...
CICERO The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends.
CICERO Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
CICERO The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unche...
CICERO The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature.
CICERO Strain every nerve to gain your point.
CICERO Reason should direct and appetite obey.
CICERO Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.
CICERO Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of t...
CICERO No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject.
CICERO Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.
CICERO Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some o...
CICERO Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
CICERO Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator.
CICERO Laws are silent in times of war.
CICERO Superstition is a senseless fear of God.
CICERO Taxes are the sinews of the state.
CICERO There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act.
CICERO There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.
CICERO We analyzed information gathered from focus groups, ... From the feedback we received, the groups di...
CICERO The First Bond of Society is Marriage.
CICERO No sane man will dance.
CICERO We were born to unite with our fellow men, and to join in community with the human race.
CICERO They do more harm by their evil example than by their actual sin.
CICERO There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it.
CICERO The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.
CICERO [One recent survey says,] people are tired of news, ... Our minds possess by nature an insatiable de...
CICERO It is hard for the good to suspect evil as it is hard for the bad to suspect good.
CICERO The great thing is that the economic impact stays here and in the state, ... We think Lafayette's a ...
CICERO Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.
CICERO If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
CICERO A nation can survive its fools, even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within....for...
CICERO What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?
CICERO The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the o...
CICERO This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn't show its age.
Latin: Hoc vinum Falernum annorum q...
CICERO Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
CICERO A happy life consists in tranquillity of mind.
CICERO It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others, and to forget his own, ... Yo...
CICERO The soul in sleep gives proof of its divine nature.
CICERO We're serious. This isn't a joke, ... If an entire town changed its name to DISH, you can't buy that...
CICERO I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not
know.
[Lat., Non me pudet fateri ...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of
men is greatly perplexed.
[Lat., I...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Hell is paved with good intentions.
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) From all sides there is equally a way to the lower world.
[Lat., Undique ad inferos tantundem viae...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving
health to men.
[Lat., Homines ad d...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Philosophy is true mother of the arts. (Science)
[Lat., Philosophia vero omnium mater artium.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and
moderation and reason.
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) In the approach to virtue there are many steps.
[Lat., In virtute sunt multi adscensus.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be
anxious to crush the very flower ...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they
possess it.
[Lat., Virtute enim...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Honor is the reward of virtue.
[Lat., Honor est premium virtutis.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering
pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, b...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect
others to be vicious.
[Lat., Nam ut...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) There are no true friends in politics.
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Nature abhors annihilation.
[Lat., Ab interitu naturam abhorrere.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art.
[Lat., Meliora sunt ea quae natu...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help
humanity forward, even in the hands ...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Not to be avaricious is money; not to be fond of buying is a
revenue; but to be content with our ow...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) The chief recommendation [in a young man] is modesty, then
dutiful conduct toward parents, then aff...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Not only is that an art in knowing a thing, but also a certain
art in teaching it.
[Lat., Nam non...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) It is difficult to tell how much men's minds are conciliated by a
kind manner and gentle speech.
...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Justice extorts no reward, no kind of price; she is sought,
therefore, for her own sake.
[Lat., J...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Justice renders to every one his due.
[Lat., Justitia suum cuique distribuit.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
[Lat., Summum jus, summa injuria.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.
[Lat., Meminerimus etiam adversu...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) The hope of impunity is the greatest inducement to do wrong.
[Lat., Maxima illecebra est peccandi ...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) To the sick, while there is life there is hope.
[Sp., Aegroto dum anima est, spes est.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
[Lat., In animi securitate vitam beatam pon...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten
before the duties of friendship can be ...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) There is no treasure the which may be compared unto a faithful
friend;
Gold some decayeth, and wo...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) You must therefore love me, myself, and not my circumstances, if
we are to be real friends.
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) A friend is, as it were, a second self.
[Lat., Amicus est tanquam alter idem.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) It is generally said, "Past labors are pleasant," Euripides says,
for you all know the Greek verse,...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind.
[Lat., Doctrina est ingenii naturale quoddam pabu...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Let our friends perish, provided that our enemies fall at the
same time.
[Lat., Pereant amici, du...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Man is his own worst enemy.
[Lat., Nihil inimicius quam sibi ipse.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, "O ancient house!
alas, how unlike is thy present m...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to
the second or even the third rank.
...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never
see the fruit.
[Lat., Abores ser...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) No well-informed person has declared a change of opinion to be
inconstancy.
[Lat., Nemo doctus un...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) At whose sight, like the sun,
All others with diminish'd lustre shone.
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Like, according to the old proverb, naturally goes with like.
[Lat., Pares autem vetere proverbio,...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) By some fortuitous concourse of atoms.
[Lat., Fortuito quodam concursu atomorum.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Calumny is only the noise of madmen.
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Nothing is so swift as calumny; nothing is more easily uttered;
nothing more readily received; noth...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor
temperate, who considers pleasure the hi...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) First things first, second things never.
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) The beginnings of all things are small.
[Lat., Omnium rerum principia parva sunt.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be
not committed.
[Lat., In ipsa du...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) The rabble estimate few things according to their real value,
most things according to their prejud...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) That he was never less at leisure than when at leisure: nor that
he was ever less alone than when a...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does he should do
with all his might.
[Lat., Quod...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to
teach and instruct our youth?
[Lat....
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Without your knowledge, the eyes and ears of many will see and
watch you, as they have done already...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should
be made.
[Lat., In omnibus negoti...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) No man was ever great without divine inspiration.
[Lat., Nemo vir magnus aliquo afflatu divino unq...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Precaution is better than cure.
[Lat., Praestat cautela quam medela.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Prudence is the knowledge of things to be sought, and those to be
shunned.
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a
fool.
[Lat., Cujusvis hominis est...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Our country is wherever we are well off.
[Lat., Patria est, ubicunque est bene.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is
to be regarded as the law of natu...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) The diseases of the mind are more and more destructive than those
of the body.
[Lat., Morbi perni...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Unraveling the web of Penelope.
[Lat., Penelopae telam retexens.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be
counted among great men.
[Lat.,...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
[Lat., Gloria virtutem tanquam umbra sequitur.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Like lips like lettuce (i.e. like has met its like).
(Lat., Similem habent labra lactucam.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the
guilt; and also that some men do not s...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him,
so I am no less pleased with an o...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) His deeds do not agree with his words.
[Lat., Facta ejus cum dictis discrepant.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no
fellowship with virtue.
[Lat., Vol...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men
are caught by it as fish by a hook....
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.
[Lat., Omnibus in rebus voluptatibus...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) These (literary) studies are the food of youth, and consolation
of age; they adorn prosperity, and ...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) It shows a weak mind not to bear prosperity as well as adversity
with moderation.
[Lat., Ut adver...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO)