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 soul mind
The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man.
crush competition advancement
Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing others.
good-life value-yourself has-beens
You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.
fitness health exercise
It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor.
men thinking spirituality
The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.
men leisure doe
He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.
law may lawyer
We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.
cute dog waiting
Dogs wait for us faithfully.
freedom liberty tyranny
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
trust trust-no-one salt
Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.
eye mind faces
The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.
children teaching science
When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.
friendship tests reliability
The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
education science mind
A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.