The Life of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 3Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1810 |
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Page 389 - God, the immortality of the soul, and a future state of rewards and punishments have be,en esteemed useful engines of government.
Page 279 - The republic (says he) is attacked always with greater vigour than it is defended ; for the audacious and profligate, prompted by their natural enmity to it, are easily impelled to act upon the least nod of their leaders : whereas the honest, I know not why, are generally slow and unwilling to stir ; and neglecting always the beginnings of things, are never roused to exert themselves but by the last necessity : so that through irresolution and delay, when they would be glad to compound at last for...
Page 298 - I ever wish to see that city, or think it a city, which would not accept liberty when offered, and even forced upon it, but has more dread of the name of their late king, in the person of a boy, than confidence in itself; though it has seen that very king taken off in the...
Page 386 - Athens — one now and another hereafter ; but the same eternal, immutable law comprehends all nations, at all times, under one common master and governor of all — GOD. He is the inventor, propounder...
Page 399 - He declared contention to be no longer prudent than while it either did service, or, at least, no hurt ; but when faction was grown too strong to be...
Page 386 - The true law (it is Cicero who speaks) is right reason conformable to the nature of things, constant, eternal, diffused through all, which calls us to duty by commanding, deters us from sin by forbidding; which never loses its influence with the good, nor ever preserves it with the wicked. This law cannot be...
Page 288 - After the death of Caesar, and those your memorable ides of March, you cannot forget, Brutus, what I declared to have been omitted by you, and what a tempest I foresaw hanging over the republic. You had freed us from a great plague, wiped off a great stain from the Roman people, acquired to yourselves divine glory, yet all the equipage and furniture of kingly power was left still to Lepidus and Antony — the one inconstant, the other vicious ; both of them afraid of peace, and enemies to the public...
Page 313 - As soon as the soldiers appeared, the servants prepared themselves to fight, being resolved to defend their master's life at the hazard of their own: but Cicero commanded them to set him down, and to make no resistance...
Page 282 - Antony ; in which he succeeded even beyond expectation, and would certainly have gained his end, had he not been prevented by accidents which could not be foreseen.
Page 302 - ... regard to times and circumstances — that a wise man has a sufficiency of all things within himself. There are, indeed, many noble sentiments in it, worthy of old Rome, which Cicero, in a proper season, would have recommended as warmly as he ; yet they were not principles to act upon in a conjuncture so critical; and the rigid application of them is the less excusable in Brutus, because he himself did not always practise what he; professed, but was too apt to forget both the stoic and the Roman.