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
brave considers courage evil greatest highest pain pleasure temperate
No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.
actual evil example harm
They do more harm by their evil example than by their actual sin.
bad evil good hard suspect
It is hard for the good to suspect evil as it is hard for the bad to suspect good.
evil evil-thoughts madden
It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.
evil passing-away making-a-difference
If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.
ignorance evil approach
Ignorance of impending evil is far better than a knowledge of its approach.
evil should exes
Of evils one should choose the least. [Lat., Ex malis eligere minima oportere.]
plato men evil
Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook.
evil republic may
How great an evil do you see that may have been announced by you against the Republic? - Videtis quantum scelus contra rem publicam vobis nuntiatum sit?
evil stronger bud
Every evil in the bud is easily crushed: as it grows older, it becomes stronger.
freedom evil hard
It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good.
men evil limits
The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness.
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,