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
country real share
We are not born, we do not live for ourselves alone; our country, our friends, have a share in us.
country parent patriotism
Patria est communis omnium parens. Our country is the common parent of all.
death country immortality
No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality.
country patriotism wells
Our country is wherever we are well off. [Lat., Patria est, ubicunque est bene.]
country world citizens
Socrates, indeed, when he was asked of what country he called himself, said, "Of the world"; for he considered himself an inhabitant and a citizen of the whole world.
country home adversity
These studies are a spur to the young, a delight to the old: an ornament in prosperity, a consoling refuge in adversity; they are pleasure for us at home, and no burden abroad; they stay up with us at night, they accompany us when we travel, they are with us in our country visits.
country book adversity
Books are the food of youth, the delight of old age; the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity; a delight at home, and no hindrance abroad; companions by night, in traveling, in the country.
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.
buzz concept exciting hope large town
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