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
recollection
The life of the dead consists in the recollection cherished of them by the living.
men expression relaxation
It is easy to distinguish between the joking that reflects good breeding and that which is coarse-the one, if aired at an apposite moment of mental relaxation, is becoming in the most serious of men, whereas the other is unworthy of any free person, if the content is indecent or the expression obscene.
young-friends age duty
It is our duty, my young friends, to resist old age.
accomplish
There is no thing which God cannot accomplish.
sweet roots fruit
The roots of knowledge are bitter, but its fruit are sweet.
sweet names
The name of peace is sweet, the thing itself is most salutary.
teacher citizens duty
It was fear that was then making you a good citizen, which is never a lasting teacher of duty.
There is nothing god cannot do.
teacher
History is the teacher of life
men rome law
There is in fact a true law namely right reason, which is in accordance with nature, applies to all men and is unchangeable and eternal. ... It will not lay down one rule at Rome and another at Athens, nor will it be one rule today and another tomorrow. But there will be one law eternal and unchangeable binding all times and upon all peoples.
journey may absurd
What the object of senile avarice may be I cannot conceive. For can there be anything more absurd than to seek more journey money, the less there remains of the journey?
wise men suffering
Man must suffer to be wise.
age talkative old-age
Old age by nature is rather talkative.
saving virtue advantage
Saving the virtues includes all other advantages