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
war victory enemy
After victory, you have more enemies.
hurt enemy
Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.
luxury enemy folly
The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.
men enemy
A man has no enemy worse than himself.
enemy violence plot
If our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.
war enemy victory
Wars, therefore, are to be undertaken for this end, that we may live in peace, without being injured; but when we obtain the victory, we must preserve those enemies who behaved without cruelty or inhumanity during the war.
men worst-enemy enemy
Man is his own worst enemy. [Lat., Nihil inimicius quam sibi ipse.]
men enemy
A man has no worse enemy than himself.
fall enemy friend-enemy
Let our friends perish, provided that our enemies fall at the same time.
men worst-enemy enemy
Man is his own worst enemy.
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?