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
delightful
There is no place more delightful than one's own fireplace.
belief delightful err error lose men souls wish
If I err in my belief that the souls of men are immortal, I err gladly, and do not wish to lose so delightful an error
garden delight looks
I look upon the pleasure we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life.
home delightful
There is no place more delightful than one's own fireside. Nullus est locus domestica sede jucundior.
moving oratory delight
The aim of forensic oratory is to teach, to delight, to move.
change delight fortune
There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change of circumstances and varieties of fortune.
home home-home delightful
There is no place more delightful than home.
art grace delight
For just as some women are said to be handsome though without adornment, so this subtle manner of speech, though lacking in artificial graces, delights us.
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,
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?
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