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
defense extremism justice liberty moderation pursuit
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
eyes portrait
The countenance is the portrait of the mind, the eyes are its informers
err plato rather rightly
I would rather err with Plato than think rightly with these (Pythagoreans)
ashamed confess ignorance ignorant
I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know
doctors easy focus hard meant might realized run running
It was so hard not being able to run. Doctors told me to take it easy and that I might not be able to run ever again. I was miserable. I couldn't focus on any other part of my life. I realized how much running meant to me,
alone idle less nor wholly
Never less idle than when wholly idle, nor less alone than when wholly alone.
bull handsome kidnapped
I like myself, but I won't say I'm as handsome as the bull that kidnapped Europe.
man year
No man is so old as to think he can't live one more year
absurd express opinion
There is no opinion so absurd that some philosopher will not express it
delightful
There is no place more delightful than one's own fireplace.
destroy hands man sometime
There is nothing done by the hands of man which sometime or other time does not destroy
absurd
There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.
government people arrogance
The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to foreign governments must be reduced. If the nation doesn't want to go bankrupt, people must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.
moving government tyrants
A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.