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To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?"

Cicero, Orator, 46 BC

By way of 'Dictator' by Robert Harris, 2015


Cicero, Orator, 46BC

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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 ...
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