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
children infancy-is history
Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to continue always a child.
home home-home delightful
There is no place more delightful than home.
death home sight
The nearer I approach death the more I feel like one who is in sight of land at last and is about to anchor in one's home port after a long voyage.
death roots soul
There is, I know not how, a certain presage, as it were, of a future existence; and this takes the deepest root, and is most discoverable, in the greatest geniuses and most exalted souls.
thinking divinity divine
Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts, it is something celestial and divine.
ignorance men gains
No man should so act as to make a gain out of the ignorance of another.
death regret home
Nor do I regret that I have lived, since I have so lived that I think I was not born in vain, and I quit life as if it were an inn, not a home.
justice prison dues
Justice renders to every one his due.
truth writing law
The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is true. Moreover, there shall be no suspicion of partiality in his writing, or of malice.
men agriculture wells
For of all gainful professions, nothing is better, nothing more pleasing, nothing more delightful, nothing better becomes a well-bred man than # agriculture
community influence
A community is like the ones who govern it.
stars journey men
. . . for until that God who rules all the region of the sky . . . has freed you from the fetters of your body, you cannot gain admission here. Men were created with the understanding that they were to look after that sphere called Earth, which you see in the middle of the temple. Minds have been given to them out of the eternal fires you call fixed stars and planets, those spherical solids which, quickened with divine minds, journey through their circuits and orbits with amazing speed.
advice intention results
Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.
vices flattery handmaids
Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed .