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The dutifulness of children is the foundation of all virtues. [Lat., Pietas fundamentum est omnium virtutum.] - Oratio Pro Cnoeo Plancio (XII) [Childhood] Nothing is so swift as calumny; nothing is more easily uttered; nothing more readily received; nothing more widely dispersed. [Lat., Nihil est autem tam voluere, quam maledictum; nihil facilius emittitur; nihil citius excipitur, latius dissipatur.] - Oratio Pro Cnoeo Plancio (XXIII) [Calumny] In the approach to virtue there are many steps. [Lat., In virtute sunt multi adscensus.] - Oratio Pro Cnoeo Plancio (XXV) [Virtue] A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues. [Lat., Gratus animus est una virtus non solum maxima, sed etiam mater virtutum onmium reliquarum.] - Oratio Pro Cnoeo Plancio (XXXIII) [Gratitude] All the arts which belong to polished life have some common tie, and are connect as it were by some relationship. [Lat., Etenim omnes artes, quae ad humanitatem pertinent, habent quoddam commune vinculum, et quasi cognatione quadam inter se continentur.] - Oratio Pro Licinio Archia (I) [Art] I add this also, that natural ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability. [Lat., Etiam illud adjungo, saepius ad laudem atque virtutem naturam sine doctrina, quam sine natura valisse doctrinam.] - Oratio Pro Licinio Archia (VII) [Ability] These (literary) studies are the food of youth, and consolation of age; they adorn prosperity, and are the comfort and refuge of adversity; they are pleasant at home, and are no incumbrance abroad; they accompany us at night, in our travels, and in our rural retreats. [Lat., Haec studia adolecentiam alunt, senectutem oblectant, secundas res ornant, adversis solatium et perfugium praebent, delectant domi, non impediunt foris, pernoctant nobiscum, peregrinantur, rusticantur. - Oratio Pro Licinio Archia (VII) [Study] We are all excited by the love of praise, and the noblest are most influenced by glory. [Lat., Trahimur omnes laudis studio, et optimus quisque maxime gloria ducitur.] - Oratio Pro Licinio Archia (XI) [Praise] It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood. [Lat., Improbi hominis est mendacio fallere.] - Oratio Pro Murena (XXX) [Deceit] Ease with dignity. [Lat., Otium cum dignitate.] - Oratio Pro Publio Sextio (XLV) [Dignity] Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men. [Lat., Homines ad deos nulla re propius accedunt, quam salutem hominibus dando.] - Oratio Pro Quinto Ligario (XII) [Goodness] 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. [Lat., Ut ignis aquam conjectus, continuo restinguitur et refrigeratur, sic refervens falsum crimen in purissimam et castissimam vitam collatum, statim concidit et extinguitur.] - Oratio Pro Quinto Roscio Comaedo (VI) [Character] The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices. [Lat., Vulgus ex veritate pauca, ex opinione multa aestimat.] - Oratio Pro Quinto Roscio Comoedo (X, 29) [Public] He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie. [Lat., Qui semel a veritate deflexit, hic non majore religione ad perjurium quam ad mendacium perduci consuevit.] - Oratio Pro Quinto Roscio Comoedo (XX) [Truth] He is sometimes slave who should be master; and sometimes master who should be slave. [Lat., Fit in dominatu servitus, in servitute dominatus.] - Oratio Pro Rege Deiotaro (XI) [Slavery] Let our friends perish, provided that our enemies fall at the same time. [Lat., Pereant amici, dum una inimici intercidant.] - Oratio Pro Rege Deitaro (IX) [Enemies] What's the good of it? for whose advantage? [Lat., Cui bono?] - Oratio Pro Sextio Roscio Amerino (XXX), quoted from Lucius Cassius' "Second Philippic" [Goodness] For your altars and your fires. [Lat., Pro aris et focis.] - Oration for Roscius (ch. V) [War] O what times (are these)! what morals! [Lat., O tempora! O mores!] - Orationes in Catilinam (I, 2) [Time] Without your knowledge, the eyes and ears of many will see and watch you, as they have done already. [Lat., Multorum te etiam oculi et aures non sentientem, sicuti adhuc fecerunt, speculabuntur atque custodient.] - Orationes In Catilinam (I, 2) [Suspicion] Our country is the common parent of all. [Lat., Patria est communis omnium parens.] - Orationes in Catilinam (I, 7) [Patriotism] No wise man ever thought that a traitor should be trusted. [Lat., Nemo unquam sapiens proditori credendum putavit.] - Orationes In Verrem (II, 1, 15) [Treason] Things sacred should not only be touched with the hands, but unviolated in thought. [Lat., Res sacros non modo manibus attingi, sed ne cogitatione quidem violari fas fuit.] - Orationes in Verrem (II, 4, 45) [Religion] Not to be avaricious is money; not to be fond of buying is a revenue; but to be content with our own is the greatest and most certain wealth of all. [Lat., Non esse cupidum, pecunia est; non esse emacem, vectigal est; contentum vero suis rebus esse, maximae sunt, certissimaeque divitiae.] - Paradoxa (6, 3) [Wealth] Economy is a great revenue. [Lat., Magnum vectigal est parsimonia.] - Paradoxa (VI, 3, 49) [Economy] Displaying page 17 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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