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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.
5 sie 2024 · "A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.
“The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time. Anyone who was given love will always live on in another's heart.” ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
Links to English translations of all the surviving speeches of Cicero can be found in the following tables. Translations of the speeches are already available on the Perseus website; those translations were made by C.D. Yonge in the middle of the 19th century. Some more recent translations are shown here; they are mostly taken from the Loeb ...
The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend. Marcus Tullius Cicero
The first book teaches us how to condemn the terrors of death, and to look up-on it as a blessing rather than an evil; The second, to support pain and affliction with a manly fortitude; The third, to appease all our complaints and uneasinesses under the accidents of life; The fourth, to moderate all our other passions;
Cicero: First Speech against Catiline Delivered in the Roman Senate (63 BCE) Translated by Charles Duke Yonge Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 BCE–43 BCE): Rome’s finest orator, Cicero was born at Arpinum on 3 January 106 BCE, and killed at Formia while fleeing from his political enemies on 7 December 43 BCE. served in the
