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
book garden library
Anyone who has got a book collection/library and a garden wants for nothing.
mean people community
Civilized people are taught by logic, barbarians, by necessity, communities by tradition; and the lesson inculcated even in wild beasts by nature itself. They learn that they have to defend their own bodies and persons lives from violence of any and every kind by all means within their power.
revenge opportunity enmity
Enmity is anger watching the opportunity for revenge.
laughing wonder
I wonder that a soothsayer doesn't laugh whenever he sees another soothsayer.
enemy violence plot
If our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.
age may conditions
So you see, old age is really not so bad. May you come to know the condition!
riches today moral
Morals today are corrupted by our worship of riches.
karma men order
...the counsels of the Divine Mind had some glimpse of truth when they said that men are born in order to suffer the penalty for sins committed in a former life.
inspirational motivational law
Who doesn't know that the first law of history is not to dare to say anything false, and the second is not to refrain from saying anything true?
race virtue guides
There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue.
life home phases
For no phase of life, whether public or private, whether in business or in the home, whether one is working on what concerns oneself alone or dealing with another, can be without its moral duty; on the discharge of such duties depends all that is morally right, and on their neglect all that is morally wrong in life.
stars thinking heaven
If anyone cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of feeling at all. From the enduring wonder of the heavens flows all grace and power. If anyone thinks it is mindless then he himself must be out of his mind.
Life without learning is death.
true-friend giving wells
To give counsel, as well as to take it, is a feature of true friendship.