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 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.
philosophical blessing growth
The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
tears
Nothing dries sooner than a tear.
freedom libertarian fangs
Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.
helping-others born
Non nobis solum nati sumus. (Not for ourselves alone are we born.)
philosophical wish
What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.
pleasure pleasures-of-life satiety
In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.
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.
friendship philosophical jest
Never injure a friend, even in jest.
wise witty powerful
I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
mistake failure philosophical
Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.
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.
friendship philosophical cat
A friend is, as it were, a second self.