Marcus Tullius Cicero
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Marcus Tullius Cicerowas a Roman philosopher, politician, lawyer, orator, political theorist, consul, and constitutionalist. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the Roman equestrian order, and was one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists...
NationalityRoman
ProfessionStatesman
democracy novelty tempest
No tempest or conflagration, however great, is harder to quell than mob carried away by the novelty of power.
friendship irritation giving
To give and receive advice - the former with freedom, and yet without bitterness, the latter with patience and without irritation - is peculiarly appropriate to geniune friendship.
nature world excellent
The beauty of the world and the orderly arrangement of everything celestial makes us confess that there is an excellent and eternal nature, which ought to be worshiped and admired by all mankind.
wise nature men
Nature herself makes the wise man rich.
nature law opinion
Not in opinion but in nature is law founded.
nature law opposites
Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite.
nature fields dimensions
Nature has circumscribed the field of life within small dimensions, but has left the field of glory unmeasured.
nature sacred obedience
I follow nature as the surest guide, and resign myself with implicit obedience to her sacred ordinances.
art nature finished
Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art.
war unjust cease
I cease not to advocate peace; even though unjust it is better than the most just war.
running believe loss
Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth, you believe that youth must lament the loss of infancy, or early manhood the passing of youth. Life's race-course is fixed; Nature has only a single path and that path is run but once, and to each stage of existence has been allotted its own appropriate quality; so that the weakness of childhood, the impetuosity of youth, the seriousness of middle life, the maturity of old age.. each bears some of Nature's fruit, which must be garnered in its own season.
art great-inspirational virtue
It is not enough merely possess virtue, as if it were an art; it should be practiced.
ignorance men perplexed
Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed.
ignorance astonishment causes
In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment.