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
law rights people
For what people have always sought is equality before the law. For rights that were not open to all alike would be no rights.
yield togas arms
Yield, ye arms, to the toga; to civic praise, ye laurels.
perception cognition approval
There is nothing more shocking than to see assertion and approval dashing ahead of cognition and perception.
honorable persons
It is not the place that maketh the person, but the person that maketh the place honorable.
praise
We all are imbued with the love of praise.
poetry excellence madness
Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.
two laughing religion
The well-known old remark of Cato, who used to wonder how two soothsayers could look one another in the face without laughing.
nature law impossible
What is impossible by the nature of things is not confirmed by any law.
pleasant beneficial
Peace is so beneficial that the word itself is pleasant to hear.
true-friend giving wells
To give counsel, as well as to take it, is a feature of true friendship.
karma men order
...the counsels of the Divine Mind had some glimpse of truth when they said that men are born in order to suffer the penalty for sins committed in a former life.
riches today moral
Morals today are corrupted by our worship of riches.
revenge opportunity enmity
Enmity is anger watching the opportunity for revenge.
law dumb arms
Laws are dumb in the midst of arms.