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
love rightly simply
Philosophy, rightly defined, is simply the love of wisdom.
eye lovers difficult
Nothing is difficult in the eyes of a lover.
animal animal-love
Every animal loves itself.
love friendship nature
Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship.
love inspirational friendship
Life is nothing without friendship.
love wisdom philosophy
Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.
philosophical greatest-love mines
What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.
love philosophical inspired
Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
greatest-love next
Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.
love passion thinking
In fact the whole passion ordinarily termed love (and heaven help me if I can think of any other term to apply to it) is of such exceeding triviality that I see nothing that I think comparable with it.
friendship support nature-love
Nature loves nothing solitary, and always reaches out to something, as a support, which ever in the sincerest friend is most delightful.
love passion affection
We should measure affection, not like youngsters by the ardor of its passion, but by its strength and constancy.
philosophy heart love-is
The science of love is the philosophy of the heart
love life family
The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.