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
born earlier events happened ignorant lifetime memory past stupidity unless woven
To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child. For what is man's lifetime unless the memory of past events is woven with those of earlier times?
born earlier events happened ignorant life lifetime memory past unless woven
To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child. For what is man's lifetime unless the memory of past events is woven with those of earlier times?
born happy
O fortunatam natam me consule Romam! - O happy Rome, born when I was consul!
responsibility born
We are not born for ourselves alone.
poet born orators
We are born poets. we become orators.
art born investigation
Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.
children knowledge born
Not to have knowledge of what happened before you were born is to be condemned to live as a child.
children knowledge born
Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child.
helping-others born
Non nobis solum nati sumus. (Not for ourselves alone are we born.)
politician born
Politicians are not born; they are excreted.
fortune tests
The shifts of fortune tests the reliability of friends
experience injury knew running
The whole injury experience was so frustrating. I knew if I could get back I would never take running for granted,
against proverbial stone stumble twice
To stumble twice against the same stone is a proverbial disgrace.
careful far ill speaking words
We should be as careful of our words as of our actions, and as far from speaking ill as from doing ill