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
honesty
What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.
freedom evil hard
It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good.
revenge kindness self
We can more easily avenge an injury than requite a kindness; on this account, because there is less difficulty in getting the better of the wicked than in making one's self equal with the good.
mind stronger body
In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.
men race community
We were born to unite with our fellow men, and to join in community with the human race.
philosophical wish
What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.
freedom libertarian fangs
Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.
tears
Nothing dries sooner than a tear.
helping-others born
Non nobis solum nati sumus. (Not for ourselves alone are we born.)
mind body states
In a disturbed mind, as in a body in the same state, health can not exist.
sorry philosophical strikes
No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.
desire reason
Let your desires be ruled by reason.
life doubt truth-of-life
By doubting we come at truth.
justice glory virtue
Justice is the crowning glory of the virtues.