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
science philosopher absurd
There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it.
philosopher absurd said
Sed nescio quo modo nihil tam absurde dici potest quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosphorum. (There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.)
funny philosophical philosopher
There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.
philosopher absurd said
Nothing is too absurd to be said by some of the philosophers.
religious philosopher rational
As a philosopher, I have a right to ask for a rational explanation of religious faith.
writing signatures philosopher
How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of despising glory.
death meditation philosopher
The whole life of a philosopher is the meditation of his death.
book names philosopher
In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.
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