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
destroys judgment nature time
Time destroys the speculations of man, but it confirms the judgment of nature
art finished nature
Those things are better which are perfected by nature than those which are finished by art.
nature victory haughty
Victory is by nature insolent and haughty.
nature world excellent
The beauty of the world and the orderly arrangement of everything celestial makes us confess that there is an excellent and eternal nature, which ought to be worshiped and admired by all mankind.
wise nature men
Nature herself makes the wise man rich.
nature law opinion
Not in opinion but in nature is law founded.
nature law opposites
Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite.
nature fields dimensions
Nature has circumscribed the field of life within small dimensions, but has left the field of glory unmeasured.
nature sacred obedience
I follow nature as the surest guide, and resign myself with implicit obedience to her sacred ordinances.
art nature finished
Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art.
grief doe human-nature
There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.
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.
time nature science
Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.
nature men study
There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.