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
space void midnight
Hmm... That's like telling you about the cold of space, or terror of midnight. Sithis is all those things. He is... the Void.
crazy madness
He he he... Crazy? Cicero? He he he he! That's... madness...
world events certain
Thus in the beginning the world was so made that certain signs come before certain events.
war order may
Wars are to be undertaken in order that it may be possible to live in peace without molestation.
kindness
Kindness is produced by kindness.
self requirements self-reliant
Most happy is he who is entirely self-reliant, and who centers all his requirements in himself alone.
soldier trying kill-me
There is nothing proper about what you are doing, soldier, but do try to kill me properly.
sweet peace war
The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.
insane sober
No one dances sober, unless he is insane.
latin law people
Let the welfare of the people be the ultimate law.
Like readily consorts with like.
memories children men
Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man, except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a superior age?
book heart past
For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.
law justice wicked
For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked.