Latin quotes by Cicero
Starting with phrase number 76

  1. Non enim te celavi sermonem - In fact, I did not hide the speech (Cicero - Family letter)
  2. Non inquam iam quaero unde haec habueris sed quo tantum tibi opus fuerit - I did not ask you where you got it, but why so much work has been necessary (Cicero - In Verrem II )
  3. Non nobis solum nati sumus - We are not born for ourselves (Cicero)
  4. Nos onera quibusdam bestiis, nos iuga imponimus - We put loads and yokes to certain animals (Cicero De Natura Deorum II, 151 )
  5. Notare tabellam sanguine - Write a table with blood (Cicero)
  6. Num barbarorum Romulus rex fuit? - Was not Romulus the king of the barbarians? (Cicero)
  7. Num negare audes? quid taces? Convincam, si negas - Why are you silent? I will prove it if you do deny it; (Cicero - First Catiline)
  8. O dulce nomen libertatis, o ius eximium nostrae civitatis - Oh, sweet the name of freedom, our right of eminent civility! (Legal term - Cicero, Roman politician and speaker (106-43 BC) - In Verrem, II)
  9. O praeclarum custodem ovium lupum! - An excellent protector of sheep, a Wolf (Cicero)
  10. O tempora! O mores! - Oh Times, Oh Customs (Cicero - Catilinarian (intro) - It is an expression of nostalgia for past times and customs)
  11. Occidente sole - At sunset (Cicero)
  12. Omnes viri boni ius ipsum amant - Every good man loves justice. (Cicero)
  13. Oportet esse ut vivas, non vivere ut edas - Should eat to live, not live to eat (Cicero Rhetoricorum ad Herennium, IV, 7 - attributed to Socrates)
  14. Optimum cibi condimentum fames - The best seasoning is hunger (Cicero, de Finibus II, 28)
  15. Patria est communis omnium parens - The motherland and the community are our parents (Cicero)
  16. Patria est ubicumque est bene - The homeland is where there is good (Cicero)
  17. Picturatus ager floribus - The field of painted flowers (Cicero)
  18. Platon, Ciceron et sumus Aristoteles quequiderunt in profundo laquo - Plato, Cicero and the great Aristotle Sumo into a deep lake (Philosophical term - Popular song that explains Plato, Cicero and Aristotle fell into oblivion)
  19. Praeterita mutare non possumus, sed futura providere debemos - We can not change the past, but we anticipate the future (Cicero)
  20. Quae est domestica sede iucundior? - What place is nicer than one's home? (Cicero)
  21. Quae potest esse vitae iucunditas, sublatis amicitiis? - What has life pleasant, if no friends? (Cicero De amicitia )
  22. Quaestionem in aliquem ferre - Take someone into questioning (Legal Term - Cicero - Instigate legal proceedings against someone)
  23. Quam se ipse amans, sine rivale - By loving yourself, with no rival (Cicero)
  24. Qui absens iudicio, defensus non fuerit - The one who is absent at trial will not be defended (Legal term - Cicero - Pro Quinctio, 19, 60)
  25. Qui Modeste Paret, Videtur Qui Aliquando Imperet Dignus Esse - the one who obeys with modesty appears worthy of being some day a commander (Cicero De Legibus, III, 5 - ) (Thank you: James A Addy ))

Total: 127
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