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
peace war humanity
I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.
sweet peace names
The name of peace is sweet and the thing itself good, but between peace and slavery there is the greatest difference.
peace tranquility
Peace is freedom in tranquility.
money peace war
The sinews of war are infinite money.
peace philosophical liberty
Peace is liberty in tranquillity.
peace war yield
Let arms yield to the toga, let the [victor's] laurel yield to the [orator's] tongue.
peace war
War leads to peace. [Lat., Cedant arma togae.]
peace war civil-war
For to me every sort of peace with the citizens seemed to be of more service than civil war.
sweet peace war
The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.
peace war law
The more laws, the less justice.
bull handsome kidnapped
I like myself, but I won't say I'm as handsome as the bull that kidnapped Europe.
directed good government ought receive trust
The administration of government, like guardianship ought to be directed to the good of those who confer, not of those who receive the trust
eyes portrait
The countenance is the portrait of the mind, the eyes are its informers
man year
No man is so old as to think he can't live one more year