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
positive art silence
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
death memories grieving
The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
philosophical law abuse
When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
mistake failure philosophical
Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.
army champion causes
Courage is virtue which champions the cause of right.
wise men traitor
No wise man ever thought that a traitor should be trusted.
soul ambitious body
A nation can survive its fools, even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within....for the traitor appears not to be a traitor...he rots the soul of a nation...he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.
life long shows
Long life is denied us; therefore let us do something to show that we have lived.
inspirational thank-you thanksgiving
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
law tyrants people
Though liberty is established by law, we must be vigilant, for liberty to enslave us is always present under that very liberty. Our Constitution speaks of the "general welfare of the people." Under that phrase all sorts of excesses can be employed by lusting tyrants to make us bondsmen.
memories love-you heart
The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time. Anyone who was given love will always live on in another's heart.
life-and-love children philosophical
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.
politician born
Politicians are not born; they are excreted.
book writing men
We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.