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
Marcus Tullius Cicero quotes about
sensual youth
A sensual and intemperate youth translates into an old worn-out body.
abolish luxury
If you would abolish avarice, you must abolish its mother, luxury
arrogance assistance budget debt foreign lands lest public rome
The budget should be balanced. Public debt should be reduced. The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered, and assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt.
belief delightful err error lose men souls wish
If I err in my belief that the souls of men are immortal, I err gladly, and do not wish to lose so delightful an error
consists decency giving justice
Justice consists of doing no one injury, decency in giving no one offense.
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,
beginning bird calls divisions god involved liver particular possibly shaped unworthy
For the Stoics do not say that a god is involved with the divisions in a particular liver or particular bird calls (which would be unbefitting, and unworthy of a god, and could not possibly happen); rather, the world was shaped from the beginning in
administer attempts careful habits malady man physical remedy wishes
A careful physician, before he attempts to administer a remedy to his patient, must investigate not only the malady of the man he wishes to cure, but also his habits when in health, and his physical constitution.
common judgment people power
In the common people there is no wisdom, no penetration, no power of judgment
friendship world mankind
Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
arms civic laurels
Let arms give place to civic robes, laurels to paeans.
age-and-aging great honoured pleasures value
Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
beginning certain ordained signs
It was ordained at the beginning of the world that certain signs should prefigure certain events.
arms crown laurel praise yield
Let arms yield to the toga, the laurel crown to praise.