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
success motivation mistake
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
motivational philosophical commitment
What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.
inspirational life motivational
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
inspirational motivational law
Who doesn't know that the first law of history is not to dare to say anything false, and the second is not to refrain from saying anything true?
motivational friendship truth
Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
inspirational motivational health
In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods, than in giving health to men.
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
attack basis personal speech
We must make a personal attack when there is no argumentative basis for our speech
consists decency giving justice
Justice consists of doing no one injury, decency in giving no one offense.