# Cicero's most famous sayings

From 'O tempora, o mores!' to 'If you have a garden and a library': the Roman orator's lines that are still alive, with the Latin original and the work each comes from.

- 32 votes · 14 items
- May 6, 2019 · monica_viajera
- https://even.best/en/l/2892/cicero-s-most-famous-sayings

## Top 13

1. **In times of war, the laws fall silent.** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — Silent enim leges inter arma. Pro Milone.
2. **O the times, O the customs!** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — O tempora, o mores! First Catilinarian.
3. **The height of law is the height of injustice.** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — Summum ius, summa iniuria. On Duties, I.
4. **How long, Catiline, will you abuse our patience?** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Quousque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? First Catilinarian.
5. **If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Si hortum in bibliotheca habes, nihil deerit. Letter to Varro.
6. **There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not said it.** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — On Divination, II.
7. **Let the welfare of the people be the supreme law.** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Salus populi suprema lex esto. On the Laws, III.
8. **Fortune is blind.** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Fortuna caeca est. On Friendship.
9. **Wherever one is well off, there is one's homeland.** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Patria est, ubicumque est bene. Tusculan Disputations, V.
10. **History is the teacher of life.** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Historia magistra vitae. On the Orator, II.
11. **We are not born for ourselves alone.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Non nobis solum nati sumus. On Duties, I.
12. **The face is the image of the soul, and the eyes its informers.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Imago animi vultus est, indices oculi. On the Orator, III.
13. **Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Pro Plancio.
14. **Let arms yield to the toga.** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Cedant arma togae. On Duties, I.

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