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
age age-and-aging arising blessed charged heavenly life plague pleasure youth
Old age has been charged with being insensible to pleasure and to enjoyments arising from the gratification of the senses, a most blessed and heavenly effect, truly, if it eases us of what in youth was the sorest plague of life
age-and-aging great honoured pleasures value
Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
brave considers courage evil greatest highest pain pleasure temperate
No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.
philosophical pleasure disgusting
The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.
pain absence pleasure
What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.
virtue imitation pleasure
It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty by pleasure as its recompense.
pleasure pleasures-of-life satiety
In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.
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
attack basis personal speech
We must make a personal attack when there is no argumentative basis for our speech