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
god
There is nothing which God cannot do. [Lat., Nihil est quod deus efficere non possit.]
crush mistake believe
Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century: Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others; Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected; Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it; Refusing to set aside trivial preferences; Neglecting development and refinement of the mind; Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.
law tyrants people
Though liberty is established by law, we must be vigilant, for liberty to enslave us is always present under that very liberty. Our Constitution speaks of the "general welfare of the people." Under that phrase all sorts of excesses can be employed by lusting tyrants to make us bondsmen.
thank-you children book
Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
life-and-love children philosophical
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.
eye soul portraits
The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.
death memories grieving
The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
inspirational educational book
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
opinion glory
I have always been of the opinion that unpopularity earned by doing what is right is not unpopularity at all, but glory.
positive art silence
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
inspirational life friendship
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
enough acquire
It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it.
politician born
Politicians are not born; they are excreted.
reading heart law
There exists a law, not written down anywhere but inborn in our hearts; a law which comes to us not by training or custom or reading but by derivation and absorption and adoption from nature itself; a law which has come to us not from theory but from practice, not by instruction but by natural intuition. I refer to the law which lays it down that, if our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.