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Publilius Syrus. Sententiae. c. 1st century BC.

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Publilius Syrus. Sententiae. c. 1st century BC.

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Publilius Syrus. Sententiae. c. 1st century BC.

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Publilius Syrus. Sententiae. c. 1st century BC.

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Publilius Syrus. Sententiae. c. 1st century BC.

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Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Laelius de Amicitia. c. 43 BC, ch. 21, sect. 80.

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Cicero, Marcus Tullius. "Laelius de Amicitia." M. Tullius Ciceronis: De Re Publica, De Legibus, Cato Maior de Senectute, Laelius de Amicitia, edited by J. G. F. Powell. Oxford University Press, 2006.

There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.

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On Divination

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Cicero, Marcus Tullius. De Divinatione [Concerning Divination]. c. 44 BC, bk. 2, ch 58, sect. 119.

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

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On Old Age

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Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Cato Maior de Senectute [Cato the Elder on Old Age]. c. 1885, ch. 23, sect. 85.

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Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Cicero: Cato Maior de Senectute [Cato the Elder on Old Age], edited by J. G. F. Powell. Cambridge University Press, 2004.

There were poets before Homer.

Cicero

Brutus

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Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Brutus. c. 46 BC, sect. 71.

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Cicero, Marcus Tullius. "Brutus." Cicero: Brutus and Orator, translated by Robert A. Kaster. Oxford University Press, 2020, sect. 71.

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Publilius Syrus. Sententiae. c. 1st century BC.

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Publilius Syrus. Sententiae. c. 1st century BC.

It was ordained at the beginning of the world that certain signs should prefigure certain events.

Cicero

Concerning Divination

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Cicero, Marcus Tullius. De Divinatione [Concerning Divination]. c. 44 BC, bk. 1, ch. 52, sect. 118.

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Publilius Syrus. Sententiae. c. 1st century BC.

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Publilius Syrus. Sententiae. c. 1st century BC.

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Publilius Syrus. Sententiae. c. 1st century BC.

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Publilius Syrus. Sententiae. c. 1st century BC.

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Sallust. Bellum Catilinae [War of Catiline]. c. 43–40 BC.

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Sallust. "The War with Catiline." The War with Catiline and The War with Jugurtha, translated by John T. Ramsey J. C. Rolfe. Harvard University Press, 2013.

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Quintus Ennius. Quoted in De Natura Deorum [On the Nature of the Gods], written by Cicero. c. 45 BC, bk. 1.

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Quintus Ennius. Quoted in The Nature of the Gods, written by Cicero, translated by P. G. Walsh. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 1.

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Sallust. Bellum Catilinae [War of Catiline]. c. 43–40 BC.

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Sallust. "The War with Catiline." The War with Catiline and The War with Jugurtha, translated by John T. Ramsey J. C. Rolfe. Harvard University Press, 2013.