"Laws are inoperative in war" — Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Laws are inoperative in war"

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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722 Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

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The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the…
The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.
The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched…
Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.
A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.
Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.
So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow…
The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

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When personal judgment is inoperative (or forbidden), men's first concern is not how to choose, but how to justify their… — Ayn Rand
A general flat minimum-wage law for all industry is permissible, but I do not think that it is a particularly… — Friedrich August von Hayek
This is the operative statement. The others are inoperative. — Ron Ziegler

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