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
motivational philosophical commitment
What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.
beauty animal apes
What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.
law letters force
To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.
long endless nevertheless
The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.
eye body sentinels
The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.
poet orators
No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.
philosophical men debt
It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.
fear hate philosophical
Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.
philosophical fluency admiration
Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.
philosophical conceit frivolity
Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.
philosophical tears misfortunes-of-others
For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.
children philosophical men
What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?
nature men study
There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
philosophical pleasure disgusting
The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.