Cicero

d I should add: although the challenges of our time may be new, my message is not. It was clear to the Romans, more than two thousand years ago, when Cicero wrote: It is the duty of every statesman to anticipate the future, to discover some time in advance what may happen, whether for good or for ill. And

ve been community endeavours. Human beings share out of necessity. We cooperate to survive. We form communities because that is our natural state. As Cicero observed, we were born to unite with our fellow men and to join in community with the human race. Animated by the same spirit of community, the Chart

to their necks in drug trafficking, a source of corruption par excellence. In the face of so much corruption, millions of victims seem to be echoing Cicero when he asked, "Ouousque tandem abutere. Catilina. patientia nostra?": "How long will you continue to abuse our patience, Catilina?" The people have

om: "Arma togae cédant, this is, "May weapons yield to law". One could hardly think of a more appropriate motto for the present Assembly session than Cicero's dictum. The Assembly convenes at a crucial juncture. In different parts of the world, conflict is giving way to negotiations, and more and more voi

ive life free of anguish and ensure a future free of catastrophe for man, who longs to follow a sunlit path brightened by the light of law, which, as Cicero said, frees us as we abide by its principles. 215. The tasks before this General Assembly at its thirty-first session are of great importance, and gr

ound a better place than this nor could we have selected a better occasion than this to take up again this cry of alarm, more than 20 centuries after Cicero, in view of the present way social, political and economic world mores are developing. 102. By your leave, may I first recall here, by way of explain

s has made its leaders and the servants of its purposes are its apologia. At the same time Mr. Belaúnde is surrounded by that veneration described by Cicero in his De Senectute as the reward of men who have occupied consular posts with honour, that halo of glory which adorns them in the venerable time of

International peace must be ensured for all nations through respect for their rights. It was a wise saying of Cicero:s that "Justice lies in giving to each his due". Stable world peace could be attained if the rulers who decide the destinies of the world united thei