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
advice
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
weather advice pilots
Even the ablest pilots are willing to receive advice from passengers in tempestuous weather.
giving advice suggestions
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself; you will never err if you listen to your own suggestions.
advice intention results
Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.
bull handsome kidnapped
I like myself, but I won't say I'm as handsome as the bull that kidnapped Europe.
directed good government ought receive trust
The administration of government, like guardianship ought to be directed to the good of those who confer, not of those who receive the trust
eyes portrait
The countenance is the portrait of the mind, the eyes are its informers
man year
No man is so old as to think he can't live one more year
clear counting faults fields fool forget peculiar perceive quality rocks
It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others, and to forget his own, ... You can't clear your own fields while you're counting the rocks on your neighbor's farm.
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It's an exciting concept and we hope it will become a buzz of any town large or small.
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The minds of men do in the weather share, dark or serene as it's foul or fair
himself man mind
The mind of each man is the man himself
absurd
There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.
destroy hands man sometime
There is nothing done by the hands of man which sometime or other time does not destroy