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
masters servant
In the master there is a servant, in the servant a master.
farming results reap
As you have sown so shall you reap.
mind all-things
All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.
done
In anger nothing right nor judicious can be done.
remember difficult
It is difficult to remember all, and ungracious to omit any.
men becoming courtesy
Nothing is more becoming in a great man than courtesy and forbearance
wine age cases
As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.
affection divine goodwill
Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.
long
To live long it is necessary to live slowly.
friendship wise views
We rejoice in the joys of our friends as much as we do our own, and we are equally grieved at their sorrows. Wherefore the wise people will feel toward their friends as they do toward themselves, and whatever labor they would encounter with a view to their own pleasure, they will encounter also for the sake of their friends.
friendship friends adversity
Friends are proved by adversity.
matter opinion absolutes
The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature.
art natural-talent discipline
Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. For in invention nature is never last, education never first; rather the beginnings of things arise from natural talent, and ends are reached by discipline.
men enemy
A man has no worse enemy than himself.