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
real prejudice real-value
The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices.
men errors ignorant
He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be counted among great men.
silent prudence folly
I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly.
adversity mind bears
It shows a weak mind not to bear prosperity as well as adversity with moderation.
pride arrogance prosperity
In prosperity let us most carefully avoid pride, disdain, and arrogance.
prophet prophecy
I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet.
thinking poet excellent
I have never yet known a poet who did not think himself super-excellent.
eye mind fellowship
Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no fellowship with virtue.
plato men evil
Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook.
fall may limits
In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not devote ourselves to a life of pleasure and thence fall into immorality.
feelings modesty shame
Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority.
good-intentions consciousness solace
The consciousness of good intention is the greatest solace of misfortunes.
mind foreheads gates
The forehead is the gate of the mind.
liars lying telling-the-truth
A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth.