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
writing editing mind
Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.
discovery disease causes
Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered.
long medical
To live long, live slowly.
practice skills constant
Constant practice devoted to one subject often outdoes both intelligence and skill. - Assiduus usus uni rei deditus et ingenium et artem saepe vincit
home empires fireplaces
The home is the empire! There is no peace more delightful than one's own fireplace.
patterns supervision wells
Be a pattern to others and then all will go well.
longing trouble yearning
Nothing troubles you for which you do not yearn.
gains morality ill
Ill gotten gains will be ill spent.
reading faithful able
I cannot find a faithful message-bearer," he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. "How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading.
agriculture tree littles
Tall oaks grow from little acorns.Testing. This is the text of an item. Testing. Origin. Testing. Quoted. Testing. Source. The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.
men agreement conspiracy
An agreement of rash men (a conspiracy).
stars moon axes
The following passage is one of those cited by Copernicus himself in his preface to De Revolutionibus: "The Syracusan Hicetas, as Theophrastus asserts, holds the view that the heaven, sun, moon, stars, and in short all of the things on high are stationary, and that nothing in the world is in motion except the earth, which by revolving and twisting round its axis with extreme velocity produces all the same results as would be produced if the earth were stationary and the heaven in motion. . . ."
men world action
Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned - yet whose enormous fortune...has already brought him acquittal!
light history witness
History is indeed the witness of the times, the light of truth.