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
needs blades
Need to sharpen my blade. Make it shiny, gleamy, and oh, so... deadly.
punishment offense
Let the punishment be proportionate to the offense.
thinking years mind
Each part of life has its own pleasures. Each has its own abundant harvest, to be garnered in season. We may grow old in body, but we need never grow old in mind and spirit. No one is as old as to think he or she cannot live one more year.
citizens impossible murder
It is a crime to put a Roman citizen in chains, it is an enormity to flog one, sheer murder to slay one: what, then, shall I say of crucifixion? It is impossible to find the word for such an abomination.
justice remember prison
Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.
auras popularity breeze
The popular breeze - Aura popularis
consistency opinion wells
No well-informed person has declared a change of opinion to be inconstancy.
roots violence ephemeral
While all other things are uncertain, evanescent, and ephemeral, virtue alone is fixed with deep roots; it can neither be overthrown by any violence or moved from its place.
men firsts affair
The men who administer public affairs must first of all see that everyone holds onto what is his, and that private men are never deprived of their goods by public men.
noble faithfulness fidelity
Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity.
poetic-license poetry poetic
The freedom of poetic license.
home
What is more agreeable than one's home?
practice names jerusalem
Even while Jerusalem was standing and the Jews were at peace with us, the practice of their sacred rites was at variance with the glory of our empire, the dignity of our name, the customs of our ancestors.
religion may matter
On the subject of the nature of the gods, the first question is Do the gods exist or do the not? It is difficult you may say to deny that they exist. I would agree if we were arguing the matter in a public assembly, but in a private discussion of this kind, it is perfectly easy to do so.