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
bondage free freedom law might
We are in bondage to the law so that we might be free
bondage free law order
We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free
laws time war
In time of war the laws are silent.
law people ultimate welfare
The welfare of the people is the ultimate law
command conduct forbid function law natural whose
Law is intelligence, whose natural function it is to command right conduct and forbid wrongdoing
war law dumb
When war is raging the laws are dumb.
law opinion ends
Time puts an end to speculation in opinions, and confirms the laws of nature.
nature law opinion
Not in opinion but in nature is law founded.
nature law opposites
Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite.
military war law
Laws are inoperative in war
writing law history
Who does not know that the first law of historical writing is the truth.
government law justice
God's law is 'right reason.' When perfectly understood it is called 'wisdom.' When applied by government in regulating human relations it is called 'justice.
agreement law trying
True law is right reason in agreement with nature;...it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions...It is a sin to try to alter this law, nor is it allowable to repeal any part of it, and it is impossible to abolish it entirely.
law letters force
To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.