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
changing consistency
No well-informed person ever imputed inconsistency to another for changing his mind.
taken names consistency
Virtue is uniform, conformable to reason, and of unvarying consistency; nothing can be added to it that can make it more than virtue; nothing can be taken from it, and the name of virtue be left.
consistency opinion wells
No well-informed person has declared a change of opinion to be inconstancy.
attack basis personal speech
We must make a personal attack when there is no argumentative basis for our speech
consists decency giving justice
Justice consists of doing no one injury, decency in giving no one offense.
foolish hair less sorrow tear though
It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less with baldness.
men plato rather swear truth wrong
I swear I would rather be wrong with Plato than see the truth with men like these.
build house ornament owner precept
My precept to all who build is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner
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life
To the sick, while there is life there is hope.
experience instructed less men wise
Wise men are instructed by reason; men of less understanding, by experience; the most ignorant, by necessity; the beasts, by nature.
contract percent price sent
The contract they sent over called for a 76 percent price increase.
destroys judgment nature time
Time destroys the speculations of man, but it confirms the judgment of nature