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
consists decency giving justice
Justice consists of doing no one injury, decency in giving no one offense.
approach giving health men nearly
In nothing do men approach so nearly to the Gods, as in giving health to men.
garden giving meditation
I look upon the pleasure which we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. . . It gives us a great insight into the contrivance and wisdom of Nature, and suggests innumerable subjects for meditation.
stress giving affection
If we lose affection and kindliness from our life: we lose all that gives it charm.
inspirational giving justice
This is our special duty, that if anyone specially needs our help, we should give him such help to the utmost of our power.
yield giving mind
As the scale of the balance must give way to the weight that presses it down, so the mind must of necessity yield to demonstration.
friendship irritation giving
To give and receive advice - the former with freedom, and yet without bitterness, the latter with patience and without irritation - is peculiarly appropriate to geniune friendship.
past years giving
Hours and days and months and years go by; the past returns no more, and what is to be we cannot know; but whatever the time gives us in which we live, we should therefore be content.
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.
men offense-and-defense giving
Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.
giving advice suggestions
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself; you will never err if you listen to your own suggestions.
men tyrants giving
For out of such an ungoverned populace one is usually chosen as a leader, someone bold and unscrupulous who curries favor with the people by giving them other men's property. To such a man the protection of public office is given, and continually renewed. He emerges as a tyrant over the very people who raised him to power.
true-friend giving wells
To give counsel, as well as to take it, is a feature of true friendship.
thinking giving tomorrow
Tomorrow will give us something to think about