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
past years giving
Hours and days and months and years go by; the past returns no more, and what is to be we cannot know; but whatever the time gives us in which we live, we should therefore be content.
change years evening
Can any one find in what condition his body will be, I do not say a year hence, but this evening?
time past years
The hours pass and the days and the months and the years, and the past time never returns.
thinking years age
No one is so old that he does not think he could live another year.
thinking years mind
Each part of life has its own pleasures. Each has its own abundant harvest, to be garnered in season. We may grow old in body, but we need never grow old in mind and spirit. No one is as old as to think he or she cannot live one more year.
birthday wine years
This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn't show its age.
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