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
destroys judgment nature time
Time destroys the speculations of man, but it confirms the judgment of nature
laws time war
In time of war the laws are silent.
age my-own short-time
For my own part, I had rather be old only a short time than be old before I really am so.
time age youth
Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
time thinking may
There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.
time age doe
The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.
time age lasts
Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.
time soul lasts
Should this my firm persuasion of the soul's immortality prove to be a mere delusion, it is at least a pleasing delusion, and I will cherish it to my last breath.
time moral
O tempora! O mores! O what times (are these)! what morals!
time reality men
Opinionum enim commenta delet dies; naturæ judicia confirmat. Time destroys the groundless conceits of men; it confirms decisions founded on reality.
time nature science
Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.
time nature philosophical
Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.
funny time men
As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
life change time
For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable? And if it, on the other hand, destroys and absolutely puts an end to us, what can be preferable to having a deep sleep fall on us in the midst of the fatigues of life and, being thus overtaken, to sleep to eternity?