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For to me every sort of peace with the citizens seemed to be of more service than civil war. [Lat., Mihi enim omnis pax cum civibus bello civili utilior videbatur.] - Philippicoe (2, 15, 37) [Peace] What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered. [Lat., Male parta, male dilabuntur.] - Philippicoe (II, 27) [Dishonesty : Possession] Prudence must not be expected from a man who is never sober. [Lat., Non est ab homine nunquam sobrio postulanda prudentia.] - Philippicoe (II, 32) [Drinking] Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty. [Lat., Timor non est diuturnus magister officii.] - Philippicoe (II, 36) [Fear] The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. [Lat., Vita enim mortuorum in memoria vivorum est posita.] - Philippicoe (IX, 5) [Memory] Every evil in the bud is easily crushed; as it grows older, it becomes stronger. [Lat., Omne malum nascens facile opprimitur; inveteratum fit pleurumque robustius.] - Philippicoe (V, 11) [Evil] Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says. [Lat., Cujusvis hominis est errare; nullius, nisi insipientis, in errore perseverae. Posteriores enim cogitationes (ut aiunt) sapientiores solent esse.] - Philippicoe (XII, 2) [Mistake : Thought] To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a fool. [Lat., Cujusvis hominis est errare, nullius nisi insipientis in errore perseverare.] - Philippicoe (XII, 2) [Error : Proverbs] The life given us by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal. [Lat., Brevis a natura nobis vita data est; at memoria bene reditae vitae sempiterna.] - Philippicoe (XIV, 12) [Life] Endless money forms the sinews of war. [Lat., Nervi belli pecunia infinita.] - Philippics (V, 2, 5) [War] In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men. [Lat., Homines ad deos nulla re propius accedunt quam salutem hominibus dando.] - Pro Ligario (XII) [Health] For the laws are dumb in the midst of arms. [Lat., Silent enim leges inter arma.] - Pro Milone (IV) [Law] Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and long honourable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself. - Rhetorical Invention [Confidence] Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason. - Rhetorical Invention (bk. II, sc. LIII) [Virtue] Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority. - Rhetorical Invention (bk. II, sec. LVI) [Modesty] Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat. [Lat., Esse oportet ut vivas, non vivere ut edas.] - Rhetoricorum Ad C. Herennium (IV, 7) [Eating] From all sides there is equally a way to the lower world. [Lat., Undique ad inferos tantundem viae est.] - Tusc. Quoest. (bk. I, 43, 104), quoted as a saying of Anaxagoras [Hell] O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been without thee? Thou hast produced cities; thou hast called men scattered about into the social enjoyment of life. [Lat., O vitae philosophia dux! O virtutis indagatrix, expultrixque vitiorum! Quid non modo nos, sed omnino vita hominum sine et esse potuisset? Tu urbes peperisti; tu dissipatos homines in societatum vitae convocasti.] - Tusc. Quoest. (bk. V, 2, 5) [Philosophy] But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is to be regarded as the law of nature. [Lat., Omni autem in re consensio omnium gentium lex naturae putanda est.] - Tusc. Quoest. (I, 13, 30) [Opinion] I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know. [Lat., Non me pudet fateri nescire quod nesciam.] - Tusc. Quoest. (I, 25, 60) [Ignorance] I am pleased to be praised by a man so praised as you, father. [Words used by Hector.] [Lat., Laetus sum Laudari me abs te, pater, laudato viro.] - quoted by Tusc. Quoest. (IV, 31, 67) [Praise] For one day spent well, and agreeably to your precepts, is preferable to an eternity of error. - Tusculan Disputations (book V, division 2) [Day] Philosophy is true mother of the arts. (Science) [Lat., Philosophia vero omnium mater artium.] - Tusculanarum Disputationum (bk. I) [Science] A man of courage is also full of faith. - Tusculanarum Disputationum (bk. III, ch. VIII), (Yonge's translation) [Courage] At whose sight, like the sun, All others with diminish'd lustre shone. - Tusculanarum Disputationum (bk. III, div. 18), (Yonge's translation) [Comparison] Displaying page 18 of 19 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 [18] 19
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