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
atheist practice support
The habit of arguing in support of atheism, whether it be done from conviction or in pretense, is a wicked and impious practice.
real fire faithful
It is not easy to distinguish between true and false affection, unless there occur one of those crises in which, as gold is tried by fire, so a faithful friendship may be tested by danger.
country real share
We are not born, we do not live for ourselves alone; our country, our friends, have a share in us.
real real-friends wages
Friendship is not to be sought for its wages, but because its revenue consists entirely in the love which it implies.
real virtue possibility
It is virtue itself that produces and sustains friendship, not without virtue can friendship by any possibility exist.
real sun world
It is like taking the sun out of the world, to bereave human life of friendship.
real faces looks
For he, indeed, who looks into the face of a friend beholds, as it were, a copy of himself.
real your-side way
Friendship embraces innumerable ends; turn where you will it is ever at your side; no barrier shuts it out; it is never untimely and never in the way.
real voice benefits
Friendship is the only point in human affairs concerning the benefit of which all, with one voice, agree.
dance party men
For hardly any man dances when sober, unless he is insane. Nor does he dance while alone, nor at a respectable and moderate party. Dancing is the final phase of a wild party with fancy decorations and a multitude of delights.
truth mind desire
Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.
science philosopher absurd
There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it.
mind kind natural
Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind.
leadership persistence views
Persistence in a single view has never been regarded as a merit in political leaders.