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
truth philosophical thinking
If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
inspirational education teacher
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
love life family
The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.
inspirational life faith
A man of courage is also full of faith.
thank-you children book
Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
life hope latin
While there's life, there's hope.
opinion glory
I have always been of the opinion that unpopularity earned by doing what is right is not unpopularity at all, but glory.
hype obscure intention
Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.
inspirational life friendship
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
inspirational friendship assistants
Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.
men joy heaven
A man would have no pleasures in discovering all the beauties of the universe, even in heaven itself, unless he had a partner to whom he might communicate his joys.
learning waiting mind
Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.
birthday wine years
This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn't show its age.
pain men thinking
No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good.