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
law people safety
The safety of the people shall be the highest law.
friendship philosophical cat
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
motivational friendship truth
Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
peace war law
The more laws, the less justice.
inspirational wise wisdom
The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
friends real circumstances
You must therefore love me, myself, and not my circumstances, if we are to be real friends.
power opinion authority
Great is the power, great is the authority of a senate that is unanimous in its opinions.
soul body individual
One who sees the Supersoul accompanying the individual soul in all bodies and who understands that neither the soul nor the Supersoul is ever destroyed, actually sees.
life-is-short space long
For even if the allotted space of life be short, it is long enough in which to live honorably and well.
taken men suffering
Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.
evil stronger bud
Every evil in the bud is easily crushed: as it grows older, it becomes stronger.
dignity speak lows
They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.
men doe virtue
The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious.
inspiration soul divine
There never was a great soul that did not have some divine inspiration.