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
gratitude philosophical envy
I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.
trust truth philosophical
The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.
wise witty powerful
I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
pleasure pleasures-of-life satiety
In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.
friendship philosophical jest
Never injure a friend, even in jest.
philosophical blessing growth
The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
god giving soul
Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.
honesty
What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.
freedom evil hard
It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good.
revenge kindness self
We can more easily avenge an injury than requite a kindness; on this account, because there is less difficulty in getting the better of the wicked than in making one's self equal with the good.
mind stronger body
In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.
men race community
We were born to unite with our fellow men, and to join in community with the human race.
philosophical wish
What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.
freedom libertarian fangs
Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.