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
law arms mute
Law stands mute in the midst of arms.
superstitions destroying
We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.
free-thought our-thoughts
Our thoughts are free.
political investing public-opinion
Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.)
handsome bulls kidnapped
I like myself, but I won't say I'm as handsome as the bull that kidnapped Europa.
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.
doubt imitation advantage
In everything, without doubt, truth has the advantage over imitation.
yield togas arms
Yield, ye arms, to the toga; to civic praise, ye laurels.
war safety honor
A war is never undertaken by the ideal State, except in defense of its honor or its safety.
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.
impossible wonder happens
To wonder at nothing when it happens, to consider nothing impossible before it has come to pass.
poetry excellence madness
Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.