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Law Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

57 Law quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

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The welfare of the people is called the ultimate law, meaning laws should protect everyone’s well‑being. The quotes also warn that adding more laws often leads to less justice and more unfairness. They stress that writers must always tell the truth, even when it is hard.

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The law in Athens is true in Rome

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A s laws multiply, injustice increases.

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In times of war, the law falls silent.

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In time of war the laws are silent.

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Not in opinion but in nature is law founded.

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Law stands mute in the midst of arms.

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For the laws are dumb in the midst of arms.

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Strict law is often great injustice.

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“In times of war, the law falls silent. Silent enim leges inter arma ”

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Let the welfare of the people be the ultimate law.

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Silent enim leges inter arma (Laws are silent in times of war).

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If nature does not ratify law, then all the virtues may lose their sway.

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To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.

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We are in bondage to the law so that we might be free

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What is impossible by the nature of things is not confirmed by any law.

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Time puts an end to speculation in opinions, and confirms the laws of nature.

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Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

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The devil finds work for idle hands to do. Better to reign in the hell than serve in heaven. We are in…

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The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.

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For what people have always sought is equality before the law. For rights that were not open to all alike would be…

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God's law is 'right reason.' When perfectly understood it is called 'wisdom.' When applied by government in regulating human relations it is…

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Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite.

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Law is intelligence, whose natural function it is to command right conduct and forbid wrongdoing.

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Who doesn't know that the first law of history is not to dare to say anything false, and the second is not…

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There is in fact a true law namely right reason, which is in accordance with nature, applies to all men and is…

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“True law is right reason in agreement with nature; it is of universal application, unchanging and everlasting; it summons to duty by…

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True law is right reason in agreement with nature;...it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions...…

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For as the law is set over the magistrate, even so are the magistrates set over the people. And therefore, it may…

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The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress…

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For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason,…

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Though liberty is established by law, we must be vigilant, for liberty to enslave us is always present under that very liberty.…

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This, therefore, is a law not found in books, but written on the fleshly tablets of the heart, which we have not…

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There exists a law, not written down anywhere but inborn in our hearts; a law which comes to us not by training…

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The law is silent during war

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More law, less justice.

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Laws are inoperative in war

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

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More laws, less justice.

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When war is raging the laws are dumb.

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The welfare of the people is the ultimate law

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“The life of the dead is set in the memory of the living.”

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History is the witness of the times, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity.

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Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

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