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 rights sight
Look closely at these self-evident truths, these imperishable articles of American Faith upon which all our government is firmly based. First and foremost is the existence of God. Next comes the truth that all men are equal in the sight of God. Third is the fact of God's great gift of unalienable rights to every person on earth. Then follows the true and single purpose of all American Government, namely, to preserve and protect these God-made rights of God-made man.
philosophical oratory persuasion
Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.
honorable
What is permissible is not always honorable.
life war philosophical
An unjust peace is better than a just war.
education knowledge knowing-who-you-are
I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.
book philosophical home
A home without books is a body without soul.
philosophical charm brevity
Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
character men sea
As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.
time stupid journey
Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.
food mind body
Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
The works of nature must all be accounted good.
justice forever brotherhood
They who say that we should love our fellow-citizens but not foreigners, destroy the universal brotherhood of mankind, with which benevolence and justice would perish forever.
eternity ageless gems
There are gems of thought that are ageless and eternal.
hate anger hatred
Hatred is settled anger.