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
friends adversity world
All I can do is to urge on you to regard friendship as the greatest thing in the world; for there is nothing which so fits in with our nature, or is so exactly what we want in prosperity or adversity.
inspirational kindness believe
"I believe that no characteristic is so distinctively human as the sense of indebtedness we feel, not necessarily for a favor received, but even for the slightest evidence of kindness; and there is nothing so boorish, savage, inhuman as to appear to be overwhelmed by a favor, let alone unworthy of it."
time age youth
Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
time thinking may
There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.
time age doe
The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.
time age lasts
Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.
grieving opposites addiction
The proof of a well-trained mind is that it rejoices in which is good and grieves at the opposite.
friendship ornaments remove
He removes the greatest ornament of friendship who takes away from it respect.
self spirituality fingers
The spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which can be pointed out by your finger.
sweet peace names
The name of peace is sweet and the thing itself good, but between peace and slavery there is the greatest difference.
men world arrogant
It is not only arrogant, but it is profligate, for a man to disregard the world's opinion of himself.
children knowledge born
Not to have knowledge of what happened before you were born is to be condemned to live as a child.
men differences justice
There is a difference between justice and consideration in one's relations to one's fellow men. It is the function of justice not to do wrong to one's fellow men of considerateness, not to wound their feelings.
teacher memories light
History is the witness of the times, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity.