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
vices great-things knows
It is a great thing to know your vices.
vices flattery handmaids
Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship). [Lat., Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur.]
vices flattery handmaids
Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed .
friendship favors vices
Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue.
bull handsome kidnapped
I like myself, but I won't say I'm as handsome as the bull that kidnapped Europe.
directed good government ought receive trust
The administration of government, like guardianship ought to be directed to the good of those who confer, not of those who receive the trust
eyes portrait
The countenance is the portrait of the mind, the eyes are its informers
man year
No man is so old as to think he can't live one more year
clear counting faults fields fool forget peculiar perceive quality rocks
It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others, and to forget his own, ... You can't clear your own fields while you're counting the rocks on your neighbor's farm.
buzz concept exciting hope large town
It's an exciting concept and we hope it will become a buzz of any town large or small.
dark fair foul men minds serene weather
The minds of men do in the weather share, dark or serene as it's foul or fair
himself man mind
The mind of each man is the man himself
absurd
There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.
destroy hands man sometime
There is nothing done by the hands of man which sometime or other time does not destroy