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
men errors giving
If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.
errors soul needs
If I am mistaken in my opinion that the human soul is immortal, I willingly err; nor would I have this pleasant error extorted from me; and if, as some minute philosophers suppose, death should deprive me of my being, I need not fear the raillery of those pretended philosophers when they are no more.
errors one-day eternity
For one day spent well, and agreeably to your precepts, is preferable to an eternity of error.
men errors ignorant
He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be counted among great men.
errors fool persevere
To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a fool.
plato men errors
By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much you value, than to be right in the company of such men.
philosophical men errors
Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.
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
attack basis personal speech
We must make a personal attack when there is no argumentative basis for our speech