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
philosophical tears trouble
A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.
fall flower roots
True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.
army honor useless
Ability without honor is useless.
baby children men
Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?
inspirational divine-inspiration portions
No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.
philosophical silence denial
Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.
education teacher teaching
What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?
law people safety
The safety of the people shall be the highest law.
friendship philosophical cat
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
motivational friendship truth
Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
peace war law
The more laws, the less justice.
inspirational wise wisdom
The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
friends real circumstances
You must therefore love me, myself, and not my circumstances, if we are to be real friends.
power opinion authority
Great is the power, great is the authority of a senate that is unanimous in its opinions.