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
latin criticism critics
They condemn what they do not understand.
judging wish criticism
He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.
discipline reason should
Reason should direct, and appetite obey.
spiritual alive interconnected
Everything is alive... Everything is interconnected.
philosophical annihilation
Nature abhors annihilation.
philosophical might
Whatever you do, do with all your might.
philosophical writing ifs
Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.
honor mind matter
Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature.
excited glory praise
We are all excited by the love of praise, and the noblest are most influenced by glory.
health mind body
In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.
men age
For there is assuredly nothing dearer to a man than wisdom, and though age takes away all else, it undoubtedly brings us that.
art life-is-short forever
Life is short, but art lives forever.
confidence grace should
The mansion should not be graced by its master, the master should grace the mansion.
truth men firsts
The first duty of man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.