Victory is by nature insolent and haughty.
Victory is by nature insolent and haughty.
Let arms give place to civic robes, laurels to paeans.
There is something pleasurable in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.
Superstition is an unreasoning fear of God.
A happy life consists in tranquillity of mind.
I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.
A good orator is pointed and impassioned.
As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.
He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.
For whose benefit is it Cui bono.
Great is the power, great is the authority of a senate that is unanimous in its opinions.
Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.
There never was a great soul that did not have some divine inspiration.
Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.
Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually.
I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier.
Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
How long now, Catiline, will you abuse our patience.
We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.
Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune.
Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.
Would that I could discover truth as easily as I can uncover falsehood
Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?
Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.
Let the punishment be proportionate to the offense.
Whatever befalls in accordance with nature should be accounted good
Excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into excessive slavery.
You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.
Like associates with like.
The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
Justice consists of doing no one injury, decency in giving no one offense.
Philosophy is the true mother of science.
The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to foreign governments must be reduced, if Rome doesn't want to become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.
I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.
I prefer the wisdom of the unlearned to the folly of the loquacious
Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.
for the mere act of thinking a course expedient, when it is morally wrong, is demoralizing.
The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.
What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth
An agreement of rash men (a conspiracy). Consensus audacium.
A youth of sensuality and intemperance delivers over to old age a worn-out body.
Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men.
Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
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.
I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet.
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