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
strong children men
It is a strong proof of men knowing most things before birth, that when mere children they grasp innumerable facts with such speed as to show that they are not then taking them in for the first time, but are remembering and recalling them.
men failing cures
Quacks pretend to cure other men's disorders, but fail to find a remedy for their own.
sleep giving soul
The soul in sleep gives proof of its divine nature.
virtue glory whole
The whole glory of virtue resides in activity.
people blind fortune
Fortune is not only blind herself, but blinds the people she has embraced.
culture praise deserve
I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.
men race cities
To reduce man to the duties of his own city, and to disengage him from duties to the members of other cities, is to break the universal society of the human race.
men atheism wish
Nature ordains that a man should wish the good of every man, whoever he may be, for this very reason that he is a man.
teacher wish atheism
In a discussion of this kind our interest should be centered not on the weight of the authority but on the weight of the argument. Indeed the authority of those who set out to teach is often an impediment to those who wish to learn. They cease to use their own judgment and regard as gospel whatever is put forward by their chosen teacher.
men justice politics
I know that it is likely that as worship of the gods declines, faith between men and all human society will disappear, as well as that most excellent of all virtues, which is justice.
law politics injustice
A s laws multiply, injustice increases.
wise art philosophy
Probabilities direct the conduct of the wise man.
world riches frugality
The world has not yet learned the riches of frugality.
thinking names spain
Come now: Do we really think that the gods are everywhere called by the same names by which they are addressed by us? But the gods have as many names as there are languages among humans. For it is not with the gods as with you: you are Velleius wherever you go, but Vulcan is not Vulcan in Italy and in Africa and in Spain.