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Latin quotes by Cicero Starting with phrase number 81
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- Num barbarorum Romulus rex fuit? - Was not Romulus the king of the barbarians? (Cicero)
- Num negare audes? quid taces? Convincam, si negas - Why are you silent? I will prove it if you do deny it; (Cicero - First Catiline)
- 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)
- O praeclarum custodem ovium lupum! - An excellent protector of sheep, a Wolf (Cicero)
- O tempora! O mores! - Oh Times, Oh Customs (Cicero - Catilinarian (intro) - It is an expression of nostalgia for past times and customs)
- Occidente sole - At sunset (Cicero)
- Omnes viri boni ius ipsum amant - Every good man loves justice. (Cicero)
- 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)
- Optimum cibi condimentum fames - The best seasoning is hunger (Cicero, de Finibus II, 28)
- Patria est communis omnium parens - The motherland and the community are our parents (Cicero)
- Patria est ubicumque est bene - The homeland is where there is good (Cicero)
- Picturatus ager floribus - The field of painted flowers (Cicero)
- 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)
- Praeterita mutare non possumus, sed futura providere debemos - We can not change the past, but we anticipate the future (Cicero)
- Quae est domestica sede iucundior? - What place is nicer than one's home? (Cicero)
- Quae potest esse vitae iucunditas, sublatis amicitiis? - What has life pleasant, if no friends? (Cicero De amicitia )
- Quaestionem in aliquem ferre - Take someone into questioning (Legal Term - Cicero - Instigate legal proceedings against someone)
- Quam se ipse amans, sine rivale - By loving yourself, with no rival (Cicero)
- Qui absens iudicio, defensus non fuerit - The one who is absent at trial will not be defended (Legal term - Cicero - Pro Quinctio, 19, 60)
- 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 ))
- Quid dicam de thesauro rerum omnium memoria? - What shall I say of memory, repository of all knowledge? (Cicero - De senectute)
- Quid tandem te impedit? mosne maiorum? - What hinders you? the customs of the ancestors? (Cicero In Catilinam)
- Quousque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra - Until when, Catiline, will you abuse our patience (Exordium of Cicero's first diatribe, where he complains to the Roman senate about Catiline conspiracy)
- Recta conscientia traversum unguem non oportet discedere - It is not advisable to move away from your conscience even the width of a fingernail (Cicero - Epistulae)
- Saepe ne utile quidem est scire quid futurum sit - Sometimes it's better not to know what will happen (Cicero)
Total: 127
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