WIST Quotations Has Moved!A man who does not see this is senseless; he who does see it, and still advocates such a measure, is impious.
[Hoc qui non videt, excors; qui, cum videt, decernit, impius est.]
[Hoc qui non videt, excors; qui, cum videt, decernit, impius est.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Philippics [Philippicae; Antonian Orations], No. 5, ch. 2 / sec. 5 (5.2/5.5) (43-01-01 BC) [tr. Yonge (1903)]
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Philippics [Philippicae; Antonian Orations], No. 5, ch. 2 / sec. 5 (5.2/5.5) (43-01-01 BC) [tr. Yonge (1903)] - Cicero, Marcus Tullius | WIST Quotations
A man who does not see this is senseless; he who does see it, and still advocates such a measure, is impious. [Hoc qui non videt, excors; qui, cum videt, decernit, impius est.] On the suggestion that Mark Antony be bought off by giving him governorship of Transalpine Gaul, and…