Cicero Agrees with Me!

A while ago, I wrote a post about how I don't see political flip-flopping as such a big deal. My Latin teacher set me up with these selections from Cicero:

...numquam enim in praestantibus in re publica gubernanda viris laudata est in una sententia perpetua permansio....

...for persistence in a single permanent opinion among men [sic] active in the governance of the republic has never been praised....

Familiares 1.9.21

and

nemo doctus umquam ... mutationem consili inconstantiam dixit esse.

No educated person has ever said that a change of mind was inconsistency.

Atticum 16.7.3