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
economy economy-and-economics great men realize revenue
Men do not realize how great a revenue economy is
doctors easy focus hard meant might realized run running
It was so hard not being able to run. Doctors told me to take it easy and that I might not be able to run ever again. I was miserable. I couldn't focus on any other part of my life. I realized how much running meant to me,
real fire faithful
It is not easy to distinguish between true and false affection, unless there occur one of those crises in which, as gold is tried by fire, so a faithful friendship may be tested by danger.
country real share
We are not born, we do not live for ourselves alone; our country, our friends, have a share in us.
real real-friends wages
Friendship is not to be sought for its wages, but because its revenue consists entirely in the love which it implies.
real virtue possibility
It is virtue itself that produces and sustains friendship, not without virtue can friendship by any possibility exist.
real sun world
It is like taking the sun out of the world, to bereave human life of friendship.
real faces looks
For he, indeed, who looks into the face of a friend beholds, as it were, a copy of himself.
real your-side way
Friendship embraces innumerable ends; turn where you will it is ever at your side; no barrier shuts it out; it is never untimely and never in the way.
real voice benefits
Friendship is the only point in human affairs concerning the benefit of which all, with one voice, agree.
real virtue harmony
It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.
time reality men
Opinionum enim commenta delet dies; naturæ judicia confirmat. Time destroys the groundless conceits of men; it confirms decisions founded on reality.
memories reality history
History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquities.
hate reality men
Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.