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
lasts doe extinction
That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.
time age doe
The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.
age doe youth
Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age.
grief doe human-nature
There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.
letters doe blushing
A letter does not blush.
children doe
What society does to its children, so will its children do to society.
grief doe
There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften. [Lat., Nullus dolor est quem non longinquitas temporis minuat ac molliat.]
wise men doe
A wise man does nothing by constraint.
law may doe
If nature does not ratify law, then all the virtues may lose their sway.
men ignorant doe
A man does not wonder at what he sees frequently, even though he be ignorant of the reason. If anything happens which he has not seen before, he calls it a prodigy.
wise doe coercion
A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.
men doe virtue
The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious.
men leisure doe
He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.
mean doe should
We should be careful that our benevolence does not exceed our means.