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
common judgment people power
In the common people there is no wisdom, no penetration, no power of judgment
pain power bears
Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
powerful age littles
Little by little old age renders the body less powerful.
freedom power threat
To freemen, threats are impotent. [Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]
powerful voice judging
Thou knowest how numerous this tribe is, how united and how powerful in the assemblies. I will plead in a low voice so that only the judges may hear, for instigators are not lacking to stir up the crowd against me, and against all the best citizens. To scorn, in the interest of the Republic, this multitude of Jews so often turbulent in the assemblies shows a singular strength of mind. The money is in the Treasury; they do not accuse us of theft; they seek to stir up hatreds...
powerful men honorable-man
When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself.
powerful past giving
As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age; first it withdraws us from active accomplishments; second, it renders the body less powerful; third, it deprives us of almost all forms of enjoyment; fourth, it
power men causes
Orators are most vehement when they have the weakest cause, as men get on horseback when they cannot walk.
power opinion authority
Great is the power, great is the authority of a senate that is unanimous in its opinions.
wise witty powerful
I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
philosophical power republic
In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.
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?