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
defense extremism justice liberty moderation pursuit
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
health religion liberty
In nothing do humans approach so nearly to the gods as doing good to others.
philosophical law liberty
Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.
peace philosophical liberty
Peace is liberty in tranquillity.
liberty slavery individual
Excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into excessive slavery. [Lat., Nimia libertas et populis et privatis in nimiam servitutem cadit.]
men liberty slavery
Too much liberty leads both men and nations to slavery.
law justice liberty
More laws, less justice.
freedom liberty tyranny
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
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