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
experience instructed less men wise
Wise men are instructed by reason; men of less understanding, by experience; the most ignorant, by necessity; the beasts, by nature.
wise nature men
Nature herself makes the wise man rich.
wise clever carpe-diem
We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.
happiness wise world
For surely to be wise is the most desirable thing in all the world.
wise judging people
Lucius Cassius ille quem populus Romanus verissimum et sapientissimum iudicem putabat identidem in causis quaerere solebat 'cui bono' fuisset. The famous Lucius Cassius, whom the Roman people used to regard as a very honest and wise judge, was in the habit of asking, time and again, 'To whose benefit?
wise truth lying
So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.
wise men temper
The wise man never loses his temper.
wise men suffering
Man must suffer to be wise.
wise men doe
A wise man does nothing by constraint.
wise art philosophy
Probabilities direct the conduct of the wise man.
friendship wise views
We rejoice in the joys of our friends as much as we do our own, and we are equally grieved at their sorrows. Wherefore the wise people will feel toward their friends as they do toward themselves, and whatever labor they would encounter with a view to their own pleasure, they will encounter also for the sake of their friends.
wise men benefits
The wise man knows nothing if he cannot benefit from his wisdom. Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but also to be utilized.
wise doe coercion
A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.
wise fool protection
The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise.