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
mother art philosophy
Philosophy is true mother of the arts [of science].
philosophy self study
To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.
love wisdom philosophy
Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.
mother philosophy
Philosophy is the true mother of science.
philosophy men cities
O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been without thee? Thou hast produced cities; thou hast called men scattered about into the social enjoyment of life. [Lat., O vitae philosophia dux! O virtutis indagatrix, expultrixque vitiorum! Quid non modo nos, sed omnino vita hominum sine et esse potuisset? Tu urbes peperisti; tu dissipatos homines in societatum vitae convocasti.]
wise art philosophy
Probabilities direct the conduct of the wise man.
art memories philosophy
It is certain that memory contains not only philosophy, but all the arts and all that appertain to the use of life.
life philosophy home
Socrates was the first to call philosophy down from the heavens and to place it in cities, and even to introduce it into homes and compel it to inquire about life and standards and goods and evils.
philosophy heart love-is
The science of love is the philosophy of the heart
leadership philosophy leader
O philosophy, you leader of life.
philosophy philosophical cohabitation
Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.
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?