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
coats shabby
Wisdom often exists under a shabby coat.
enjoyed
Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but enjoyed.
thinking men he-man
Who can love the man he fears. or by who he thinks he is himself feared?
war law dumb
When war is raging the laws are dumb.
allowance
We make allowance for necessity.
responsibility born
We are not born for ourselves alone.
poet born orators
We are born poets. we become orators.
approval incentives virtue
Virtue is increased by the smile of approval; and the love of renown is the greatest incentive to honourable acts.
law opinion ends
Time puts an end to speculation in opinions, and confirms the laws of nature.
rewards action consciousness
There is sufficient reward in the mere consciousness of a good action.
mind occupation humans
The human mind ever longs for occupation.
house dignity masters
The house should derive dignity from the master, not the master from the house.
forbidden accounts
That which is not forbidden, is not on that account permitted.
silly men age
That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.