Latin quotes by Cicero
Starting with phrase number 81

  1. Num barbarorum Romulus rex fuit? - Was not Romulus the king of the barbarians? (Cicero)
  2. Num negare audes? quid taces? Convincam, si negas - Why are you silent? I will prove it if you do deny it; (Cicero - First Catiline)
  3. 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)
  4. O praeclarum custodem ovium lupum! - An excellent protector of sheep, a Wolf (Cicero)
  5. O tempora! O mores! - Oh Times, Oh Customs (Cicero - Catilinarian (intro) - It is an expression of nostalgia for past times and customs)
  6. Occidente sole - At sunset (Cicero)
  7. Omnes viri boni ius ipsum amant - Every good man loves justice. (Cicero)
  8. 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)
  9. Optimum cibi condimentum fames - The best seasoning is hunger (Cicero, de Finibus II, 28)
  10. Patria est communis omnium parens - The motherland and the community are our parents (Cicero)
  11. Patria est ubicumque est bene - The homeland is where there is good (Cicero)
  12. Picturatus ager floribus - The field of painted flowers (Cicero)
  13. 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)
  14. Praeterita mutare non possumus, sed futura providere debemos - We can not change the past, but we anticipate the future (Cicero)
  15. Quae est domestica sede iucundior? - What place is nicer than one's home? (Cicero)
  16. Quae potest esse vitae iucunditas, sublatis amicitiis? - What has life pleasant, if no friends? (Cicero De amicitia )
  17. Quaestionem in aliquem ferre - Take someone into questioning (Legal Term - Cicero - Instigate legal proceedings against someone)
  18. Quam se ipse amans, sine rivale - By loving yourself, with no rival (Cicero)
  19. Qui absens iudicio, defensus non fuerit - The one who is absent at trial will not be defended (Legal term - Cicero - Pro Quinctio, 19, 60)
  20. 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 ))
  21. Quid dicam de thesauro rerum omnium memoria? - What shall I say of memory, repository of all knowledge? (Cicero - De senectute)
  22. Quid tandem te impedit? mosne maiorum? - What hinders you? the customs of the ancestors? (Cicero In Catilinam)
  23. 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)
  24. 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)
  25. 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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