WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/cicero-marcus-tullius/41949/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Cicero</b></a></p><blockquote>There is some hope of elections, but doubtful; some suspicion of a Dictatorship, but that too not definite; peace reigns in the Forum, but it’s the peace of a senile community rather than a contented one.<br> <br><i>[Erat non nulla spes comitiorum sed incerta, erat aliqua suspicio dictaturae, ne ea quidem certa, summum otium forense sed senescentis magis civitatis quam acquiescentis]</i></blockquote><p><b>Marcus Tullius Cicero</b> (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher<br><i>Epistulae ad Quintum fratrem [Letters to brother Quintus],</i> Book 2, Letter 15, sec. 5 (2.15.5) (54 BC) [tr. Shackleton Bailey (1978), # 18, 2.14]</p> <p>Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: <a href="https://wist.info/cicero-marcus-tullius/41949/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=qotd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>qotd</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=decadence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>decadence</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=decline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>decline</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=dictatorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dictatorship</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=election" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>election</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=fatigue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fatigue</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=peace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>peace</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=politicalinstability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politicalinstability</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=uncertainty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uncertainty</span></a></p>