Literary sources
Cicero: Catiline
How long, Catiline, will come to abuse our patience? (Quo usque tandem abutere, Catlina, our patients?) When the time is still burlarà us that your madness? To what limit will launch your unbridled audacity? Has not made any impression of the Palatine Guard Night or rounds that run through the city at night, nor fear the people, or the gathering of all people of good, or the meeting place of the Senate, as well protected, not the looks and the faces of those who are here? Do not you see that your conspiracy has been dominated by the fact that all these know it? What did you do last night and what the previous one, where you be who you together, which took judgments? We believe that none of us ignore it? What time, what manners! (Or seasons or more!) The Senate knows, the Consul sees, and yet this man lives. Lives? Much more than that comes to the Senate, take part in public deliberations, notes and refer to the eyes, to death, each of us.
Mark Tullius Cicero, Lucius first speech against Catiline delivered before the Senate on November 8 of 63 in. JC, beginning with the famous former steep.
Cicero: De Republica
Note that if a society does not produce an equitable distribution of rights, duties and prerogatives, so that judges have sufficient power, the Senate enough authority and enough freedom of the people, can not wait to be a stable the constitution of the state.
Mark Tullius Cicero Republic, Jc at 54 to reflect on what looks the best form of state and government.
