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
age-and-aging great honoured pleasures value
Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
economy economy-and-economics great men realize revenue
Men do not realize how great a revenue economy is
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.
great
It is a great thing to know our vices.
gratitude greatest heart parent thankful virtues
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues
art great-inspirational virtue
It is not enough merely possess virtue, as if it were an art; it should be practiced.
vices great-things knows
It is a great thing to know your vices.
philosophical greatest-love mines
What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.
greatest-love next
Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.
inspiration greatness men
No man was ever great without divine inspiration. [Lat., Nemo vir magnus aliquo afflatu divino unquam fuit.]
greatness men guilty
This is the part of a great man, after he has maturely weighed all circumstances, to punish the guilty, to spare the many, and in every state of fortune not to depart from an upright, virtuous conduct.
greatness men inspired
All great men are partially inspired.
economic fit great impact stays
The great thing is that the economic impact stays here and in the state, ... We think Lafayette's a great alternative and a great fit for this year.
fortune tests
The shifts of fortune tests the reliability of friends