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
men plato rather swear truth wrong
I swear I would rather be wrong with Plato than see the truth with men like these.
bad evil good hard suspect
It is hard for the good to suspect evil as it is hard for the bad to suspect good.
command conduct forbid function law natural whose
Law is intelligence, whose natural function it is to command right conduct and forbid wrongdoing
beginning bird calls divisions god involved liver particular possibly shaped unworthy
For the Stoics do not say that a god is involved with the divisions in a particular liver or particular bird calls (which would be unbefitting, and unworthy of a god, and could not possibly happen); rather, the world was shaped from the beginning in
broken gone
He has departed, withdrawn, gone away, broken out.
raise storm
He used to raise a storm in a teapot.
himself self
He himself said it, and this self was Pythagoras.
cannot fortress money strong
There is no fortress so strong that money cannot take it
becoming behavior honorable
What is becoming in behavior is honorable, and what is honorable is becoming
build house ornament owner precept
My precept to all who build is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner
dark fair foul men minds serene weather
The minds of men do in the weather share, dark or serene as it's foul or fair
himself man mind
The mind of each man is the man himself
folly prefer wisdom
I prefer the wisdom of the unlearned to the folly of the loquacious
aspire disgrace highest stop
If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.