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
men long 50th-birthday
You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long. [Lat., Mature fieri senem, si diu velis esses senex.]
patience names long
Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? In heaven's name,Catiline, how long will you abuse ourpatience?
long life-is enough
Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.
long breathe
Dum Spiro, spero- As long as I breathe, I hope.
long endless nevertheless
The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.
change longing
Longing not so much to change things as to overturn them.
long
To live long it is necessary to live slowly.
long medical
To live long, live slowly.
longing trouble yearning
Nothing troubles you for which you do not yearn.
life-is-short space long
For even if the allotted space of life be short, it is long enough in which to live honorably and well.
life long shows
Long life is denied us; therefore let us do something to show that we have lived.
bull handsome kidnapped
I like myself, but I won't say I'm as handsome as the bull that kidnapped Europe.
directed good government ought receive trust
The administration of government, like guardianship ought to be directed to the good of those who confer, not of those who receive the trust
eyes portrait
The countenance is the portrait of the mind, the eyes are its informers