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.
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?