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
absurd express opinion
There is no opinion so absurd that some philosopher will not express it
law opinion ends
Time puts an end to speculation in opinions, and confirms the laws of nature.
sound public-opinion influence
Sound conviction should influence us rather than public opinion.
nature law opinion
Not in opinion but in nature is law founded.
men opinion changed
No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.
political investing public-opinion
Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.)
law matter opinion
But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is to be regarded as the law of nature.
grief sorrow opinion
Grief is not in the nature of things, but in opinion.
matter opinion absolutes
The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature.
consistency opinion wells
No well-informed person has declared a change of opinion to be inconstancy.
stupid stupidity opinion
There is no opinion so stupid that it can't be expressed by some philosopher.
power opinion authority
Great is the power, great is the authority of a senate that is unanimous in its opinions.
wise men opinion
No wise man has called a change of opinion in constancy.
opinion glory
I have always been of the opinion that unpopularity earned by doing what is right is not unpopularity at all, but glory.