Law Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

57 Law quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Cicero’s 57 statements weave together the rigor of Roman law with universal ideas of justice. His articulate prose offers a deep well of insight for anyone wanting to understand how ancient legal thought still resonates today.

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For the laws are dumb in the midst of arms.

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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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A s laws multiply, injustice increases.

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In times of war, the law falls silent.

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The law in Athens is true in Rome

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In time of war the laws are silent.

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The best interpreter of the law is custom.

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

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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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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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“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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Who does not know that the first law of historical writing is the truth.

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

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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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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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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 magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that…

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But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is to be regarded as the law of nature.

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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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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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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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Who does not know history's first law to be that an author must not dare to tell anything but the truth? And…

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Just what is the civil law? What neither influence can affect, nor power break, nor money corrupt: were it to be suppressed…

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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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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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Laws are silent in time of war.

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The welfare of the people is the ultimate law

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The more laws, the less justice.

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

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Laws are inoperative in war

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Strict law is often great injustice.

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The law is silent during war

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Grief is not in the nature of things, but in opinion.

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Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered.

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Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than…

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