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
economy economy-and-economics great men realize revenue
Men do not realize how great a revenue economy is
experience instructed less men wise
Wise men are instructed by reason; men of less understanding, by experience; the most ignorant, by necessity; the beasts, by nature.
men plato rather swear truth wrong
I swear I would rather be wrong with Plato than see the truth with men like these.
dark fair foul men minds serene weather
The minds of men do in the weather share, dark or serene as it's foul or fair
approach fellow gods good men nearly
In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in doing good to their fellow men
approach giving health men nearly
In nothing do men approach so nearly to the Gods, as in giving health to men.
belief delightful err error lose men souls wish
If I err in my belief that the souls of men are immortal, I err gladly, and do not wish to lose so delightful an error
thinking men he-man
Who can love the man he fears. or by who he thinks he is himself feared?
silly men age
That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.
men every-man
Every man's friend is no man's friend.
men quality dignity
We ought to regard amiability as the quality of woman, dignity that of man.
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.]
men age weak-points
That which is usually called dotage is not the weak point of all old men, but only of such as are distinguished by their levity.
men dancing senses
No man in his senses will dance.