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
tears
Nothing dries sooner than a tear.
helping-others born
Non nobis solum nati sumus. (Not for ourselves alone are we born.)
mind body states
In a disturbed mind, as in a body in the same state, health can not exist.
sorry philosophical strikes
No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.
desire reason
Let your desires be ruled by reason.
life doubt truth-of-life
By doubting we come at truth.
justice glory virtue
Justice is the crowning glory of the virtues.
god
There is nothing which God cannot do. [Lat., Nihil est quod deus efficere non possit.]
friendship world mankind
Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
men evil limits
The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness.
inspirational eye light
Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this, the greatest theater for virtue is conscience.
philosophical planning careful
Before beginning, plan carefully.
truth philosophical imitation
In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.
war philosophical law
Laws are silent in time of war.