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
absurd express opinion
There is no opinion so absurd that some philosopher will not express it
absurd
There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.
science philosopher absurd
There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it.
philosopher absurd said
Sed nescio quo modo nihil tam absurde dici potest quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosphorum. (There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.)
journey may absurd
What the object of senile avarice may be I cannot conceive. For can there be anything more absurd than to seek more journey money, the less there remains of the journey?
philosopher absurd said
Nothing is too absurd to be said by some of the philosophers.
journey absurd increase
The avarice of the old: it's absurd to increase one's luggage as one nears the journey's end.
behind certain quite
We're quite certain that is all behind them.
delightful
There is no place more delightful than one's own fireplace.
desire glory inspired keen man motivated
We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired by glory
bad evil good hard suspect
It is hard for the good to suspect evil as it is hard for the bad to suspect good.
command conduct forbid function law natural whose
Law is intelligence, whose natural function it is to command right conduct and forbid wrongdoing
consists decency giving justice
Justice consists of doing no one injury, decency in giving no one offense.
foolish hair less sorrow tear though
It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less with baldness.