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
thinking years age
No one is so old that he does not think he could live another year.
sometimes masters servant
The master sometimes serves, and the servant sometimes is master.
sweet past remembrance
The remembrance of past misery is sweet.
food sauce hunger
Hunger is the best sauce.
should
Whatever befalls in accordance with nature should be accounted good.
god all-things
All things are full of God.
friends true-friend self
A true friend is a sort of second self.
exercise mind
Our minds are rendered buoyant by exercise.
doubt
Through doubt we arrive at the truth.
honesty dignity
What is dignity without honesty?
death home quitting
I cheerfully quit from life as if it were an inn, not a home; for Nature has given us a hostelry in which to sojourn, not to abide.
poet conceit orators
There has never been a poet or orator who thought another better than himself.
character men fit
The more peculiarly his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.
pay peter borrowing
Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul.