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A quotation from Cicero

MARCUS: There is naturally in our minds a quite insatiable longing to discover truth.
 
[Natura inest in mentibus nostris insatiabilis quaedam cupiditas veri.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Tusculan Disputations [Tusculanae Disputationes], Book 1, ch. 19 (1.19.) / sec. 44 (1.44) (45 BC) [tr. Douglas (1985)]

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💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: ✍️🏛️ At Cicero’s request, his freed slave and secretary Marcus Tullius Tiro devised Tironian notes, a #shorthand system of roughly 4,000 symbols for #Latin.

Used to transcribe the orator’s speeches, it expanded to 14,000 signs before emperors suppressed it as diabolical. The symbol ⁊ survives today as the Tironian et in #Unicode, preserved by #Irish and #Gaelic #typography.

👉 https://www.openculture.com/2026/08/discover-the-ancient-roman-shorthand-writing-system-with-4000-symbols-commissioned-by-cicero.html

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De Romeinse senator #Cicero was een blaaskaak, maar in de loop der jaren ben ik toch een voorzichtige sympathie voor hem gaan ontwikkelen. Op de blog: een filmpje over zijn consulaat en het recent verschenen boek met al zijn brieven.

https://mainzerbeobachter.com/2026/08/14/cicero-in-beeld-boek/

A quotation from Cicero

MARCUS: The power of separating the intellect from the senses, and reason from instinct, is characteristic of the highest genius.
 
[Magni autem est ingenii sevocare mentem a sensibus et cogitationem ab consuetudine abducere.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Tusculan Disputations [Tusculanae Disputationes], Book 1, ch. 16 (1.16) / sec. 38 (1.38) (45 BC) [ed. Harbottle (1897)]

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As #Rome was divided by civil war #Cicero found himself torn. #Caesar was his old adversary, but it was politically and personally expedient to support him.

🔒 This article from the August issue is still available in the archive

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A quotation from Cicero

MARCUS: Don’t our friends, the philosophers, put their names on the very books they write condemning the quest for fame?
 
[Quid? Nostri philosophi nonne in his libris ipsis, quos scribunt de contemnenda gloria, sua nomina inscribunt?]

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Tusculan Disputations [Tusculanae Disputationes], Book 1, ch. 15 (1.15) / sec. 34 (1.34) (45 BC) [tr. Habinek (1996)]

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Popular theology ... is a massive inconsistency derived from ignorance.... The gods exist because nature herself has imprinted a conception of them on the minds of men.
-- Cicero

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A quotation from Cicero

MARCUS: Death is no annihilation, carrying off and blotting out everything, but rather, if I may so describe it, a change of abode, and an alteration in our manner of life.
 
[Mortem non interitum esse omnia tollentem atque delentem, sed quandam quasi migrationem commutationemque vitae.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Tusculan Disputations [Tusculanae Disputationes], Book 1, ch. 12 (1.12) / sec. 27 (1.27) (45 BC) [ed. Harbottle (1897)]

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The Reality of Dreams

https://johnbronze.wordpress.com/2026/07/24/the-reality-of-dreams/

A quotation from Epicharmus

I don’t want to die, but I don’t worry about being dead.
 
[Emori nolo, sed me esse mortuum nihil æstimo.]

Epicharmus of Kos (c. 540 – c. 450 BC) Greek dramatist and philosopher
Fragment 230 K-A = B 11 DK [tr. Douglas (1985)]

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The new issue of History Today is in UK stores now.

Featuring: #Caesar and #Cicero, Franklin D. Roosevelt, #CharlesDarwin on gender, Brazil’s free press, and more.

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Direktkandidat von #Volt:
"Die #Brandmauer wird bald fallen und sie muss auch fallen!
Die #FckAfD ist keine Nazi-Partei und die Brandmauer hat ihr vor allem genutzt. Die Brandmauer muss weg! Erst das wird den „Zauber“ der AfD eindämmen."

Nur, falls jemensch Volt für ne Alternative hält. 🤢

Hier ist der Link:
https: //www.cicero.de/innenpolitik/gastbeitrag-brandmauer-afd-volt-von-jagow
Achtung: Nach dem "https:" hab ich ein Leerzeichen eingefügt. Ich wollte #Cicero hier nicht verbreiten.

A quotation from Cicero

For indeed it is possible that a man may think well, and yet not be able to express his thoughts elegantly; but for any one to publish thoughts which he can neither arrange skillfully nor illustrate so as to entertain his reader, is an unpardonable abuse of letters and retirement: they, therefore, read their books to one another, and no one ever takes them up but those who wish to have the same license for careless writing allowed to themselves.
 
[Fieri autem potest, ut recte quis sentiat et id quod sentit polite eloqui non possit; sed mandare quemquam litteris cogitationes suas, qui eas nec disponere nec inlustrare possit nec delectatione aliqua allicere lectorem, hominis est intemperanter abutentis et otio et litteris. Itaque suos libros ipsi legunt cum suis, nec quisquam attingit praeter eos, qui eandem licentiam scribendi sibi permitti volunt.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Tusculan Disputations [Tusculanae Disputationes], Book 1, ch. 3 (1.3) / sec. 6 (1.6) (45 BC) [tr. Yonge (1853)]

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„Für Linke steht die Machtergreifung stets bevor“ – Harald Martenstein

https://horstschulte.com/fuer-linke-steht-die-machtergreifung-stets-bevor-harald-martenstein/

A quotation from Cicero

MARCUS: But there are more disorders of the mind than of the body, and they are of a more dangerous nature.
 
[At et morbi perniciosiores pluresque sunt animi quam corporis; hi enim ipsi odiosi sunt.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Tusculan Disputations [Tusculanae Disputationes], Book 3, ch. 3 (3.3) / sec. 5 (3.5) (45 BC) [tr. Yonge (1853)]

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@hal2022

Fortsetzung Buchzitat zur Enge oder Weite der Zeit:

„Im Gegensatz zu dieser zerstörerischen Hetze hätten die tradierten Regeln Roms ‚in ihrer Weisheit und Besonnenheit‘ das Stehen auf dem Forum – und damit die Begrenzung der Redezeit – sowie das mehrtägige Aushängen von Anträgen vor der finalen Abstimmung vorgeschrieben.

Cicero plädierte also für das, was wir Heutigen republikanische Gewaltenteilung, Zeit für parlamentarische Lesungen und Debatten sowie wissenschaftliche Begutachtung nennen.“

(2/2)

#Verschwörungsmythen #Zeit #Republik #Demokratie #Gewaltenteilung #Koalitionsausschuss #Zitat #Cicero

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A quotation from Cicero

MARCUS: All things are tolerable which others have borne and are bearing.
 
[Sed significat tolerabilia esse, quae et tulerint et ferant ceteri.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Tusculan Disputations [Tusculanae Disputationes], Book 2, ch. 23 (3.23) / sec. 57 (3.57) (45 BC) [tr. Yonge (1853)]

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Du souci de soi à la communauté : Hiéroclès et Cicéron

Chez Hierocle et Cicéron, le lien aux autres ne vient pas d’un altruisme abstrait, mais d’une extension rationnelle du souci de soi. Le cosmopolitisme stoïcien part du proche, puis élargit progressivement l’appartenance jusqu’à l’humanité entière. #Stoicism #Cosmopolitanism #Philosophy #Cicero #StoicismToday Pour Hierocle et Cicéron, la relation aux autres ne repose pas d’abord sur un sacrifice de soi au nom d’une…

https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2026/06/30/du-souci-de-soi-a-la-communaute-hierocles-et-ciceron/

A quotation from Cicero

MARCUS: As a field, though fertile, cannot yield a harvest without cultivation, no more can the mind without learning.
 
[Ut ager quamvis fertilis sine cultura fructuosus esse non potest, sic sine doctrina animus.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Tusculan Disputations [Tusculanae Disputationes], Book 2, ch. 5 (2.5) / sec. 13 (2.13) (45 BC) [tr. Peabody (1886)]

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To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
-- Cicero

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A quotation from Cicero

MARCUS: How few philosophers are to be found who are such in character, so ordered in soul and in life, as reason demands; who regard their teaching not as a display of knowledge, but as the rule of life; who obey themselves, and submit to their own decrees!
 
[Quotus enim quisque philosophorum invenitur, qui sit ita moratus, ita animo ac vita constitutus, ut ratio postulat? qui disciplinam suam non ostentationem scientiae, sed legem vitae putet? qui obtemperet ipse sibi et decretis suis pareat?]

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Tusculan Disputations [Tusculanae Disputationes], Book 2, ch. 4 (2.4) / sec. 11 (2.11) [Marcus] (45 BC) [tr. Peabody (1886)]

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Erste Perelman-Lektüre

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"I can't believe the poors would support a horrific creature like you just because they're reduced to slaves in their own homeland!"

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2119593/i-can-t-believe-the-poors-would-support-a-horrific-creature-like-you-just-because-they

"I can't believe the poors would support a horrific creature like you just because they're reduced to slaves in their own homeland!"

https://piefed.social/c/roughromanmemes/p/2119592/i-can-t-believe-the-poors-would-support-a-horrific-creature-like-you-just-because-they