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
himself self
He himself said it, and this self was Pythagoras.
life self spirit
The spirit is the true self.
self spirituality fingers
The spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which can be pointed out by your finger.
philosophy self study
To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.
real real-friends self
The real friend is another self.
friends true-friend self
A true friend is a sort of second self.
men self body
Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.
truth self would-be
If the truth were self-evident, eloquence would be unnecessary.
self requirements self-reliant
Most happy is he who is entirely self-reliant, and who centers all his requirements in himself alone.
revenge kindness self
We can more easily avenge an injury than requite a kindness; on this account, because there is less difficulty in getting the better of the wicked than in making one's self equal with the good.
selfishness virtue difficult
It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves.
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?