Author: Cicero
Cited by
- Will Self (1)
- IN: Great Apes (1997) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: An ape, a most ill-favoured beast. / How like us in all the rest?
FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Italy
- Jeffery Deaver (1)
- IN: The Steel Kiss (2016) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury,
our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.
FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Italy
- Kate Atkinson (1)
- IN: One Good Turn (2006) Fiction, Thriller, Crime, British
EPIGRAPH: What is dishonourably got is dishonourably squandered.
FROM: Philippic II 27, (-44), Book, Italy
- John Lutz (1)
- IN: Single White Female (1990) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: A friend is, as it were, a second self
FROM: De Amicitia, (-44), Book, Italy
- Jonathan Maberry (1)
- IN: Ghost Road Blues (2006) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Every evil in the bud is easily crushed; as it grows older, it becomes stronger.
FROM: Philippicae, (-43), Book, Italy
- Robert Silverberg (1)
- IN: The World Inside (1971) Novel, Fiction, Science Fiction, Dystopia, Speculative fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: We were born to unite with our fellow-men and to join
in community with the human race.
FROM: De finibus, IV, (-45), Book, Italy
- Sarah Strohmeyer (1)
- IN: Kindred Spirits (2011) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
FROM: Laelius de Amicitia, (-44), Essay, Italy
- David Hewson (1)
- IN: The Killing (2012) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Non nobis solum nati sumus.
We are not born for ourselves alone.
FROM: De Officiis (Book I, sec. 22), (-44), Book, Italy
- Ben Pastor (1)
- IN: A Dark Song of Blood (2002) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: Haec urbs arx omnium gentium.
(This City, bulwark of all peoples.)
FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], Italy
- Robert Harris (3)
- IN: Imperium (2006) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Urbem, urbem, mi Rufe, cole et in ista luce viva! (Rome! Stick to Rome, my dear fellow, and live in the limelight!)
FROM: Letter to Caelius, (-50), Letter, Italy
- IN: Lustrum (2009) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: O condicionem miseram non modo administrandae verum etiam conservandae rei publicae!
The preservation of the republic no less than governing it
– what a thankless task it is!
FROM: Cicero, speech, 9 November 63 BC, (-63), Speech, Italy
- Lady Morgan Sydney (1)
- IN: The Mohawks (1822) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Ad studium fallendi studio quaestus vocabantur.
FROM: de lege Agraria, (-63), Speech, Italy
- Matthew Gregory Lewis (2)
- IN: Tales of Terror (1813) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Sierro, libentër erro, nec mihi hunc errorem, dum vivo, extor queri volo.
FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Italy
- Grady Hendrix (1)
- IN: My Best Friend's Exorcism (2016) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: All I can do is to urge you to put friendship ahead of all other human concerns. For there is nothing so suited to man's nature, nothing that can mean so much to him, whether in good times or bad.
FROM: Laelius de Amicitia, (-44), Book, Italy
- John Shebbeare (1)
- IN: Letters on the English Nation (1755) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Cupio in tantis reipublicae periculis non diffolutum videri.
FROM: NULL, (None), Speech, Italy
- Robert Bage (1)
- IN: Hermsprong: or, Man As He Is Not (1796) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Nescis, insane, nescis, quantas vires virtus habeat. Quam illa ardentes amores excitaret sui, si videretur.
Maxima autem culpa in eo est, qui, et veritatem aspernatur et in fraudem obsequio impellitur.
Assentatio vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur; que, non modo amico, sed ne libero quidem digna est.
FROM: Paradoxa Stoicorum, (-46), Book, Italy
- Greg Iles (1)
- IN: Blood Memory (2005) Fiction, German
EPIGRAPH: Memory is the guardian of all things.
FROM: NULL, (None), Saying, Italy
- Edward Ward (1)
- IN: A fair shell, but a rotten kernel: or, a bitter nut for a factious monkey. (1705) Poetry, British
EPIGRAPH: Quid audiam verba, cum videam contraria facta?
FROM: Tusculan Disputations, (-45), Book, Italy
- Marius D'Assigny (2)
- IN: The art of memory. A treatise useful for all, especially such as are to speak in publick. The third edition corrected. (1706) NULL, French
EPIGRAPH: Constat Memoriam habere quiddam artificii, & non omnen a natura proficifci.
FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], NULL
- John Dennis (1)
- IN: An essay on the opera's after the Italian manner, which are about to be establish'd on the English stage: with some reflections on the damage which they may bring to the publick. (1706) Non-Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Negat enim Mutari posse Musicas Leges sine Mutatione Legum Publicarum.
FROM: De Legibus, Book 2, (-43), Essay, Italy
- NULL (1)
- IN: Three poems, Mahanaim, or, strivings with a saviour, ... Peniel, or the combatant triumphing, ... And the triumph consummat, ... By an experienced admirer of sanctified afflictions. (1706) Poetry, NULL
EPIGRAPH: O vitae Philosophia (Christiana) dux! Virtutum indagatrix, vitiorum expultrix, unus dies ex te & praeceptis tuis actus peccanti Immortalitati est anteponendus
FROM: Tusculan Disputations, (-45), Book, Italy