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
men errors giving
If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.
errors soul needs
If I am mistaken in my opinion that the human soul is immortal, I willingly err; nor would I have this pleasant error extorted from me; and if, as some minute philosophers suppose, death should deprive me of my being, I need not fear the raillery of those pretended philosophers when they are no more.
errors one-day eternity
For one day spent well, and agreeably to your precepts, is preferable to an eternity of error.
men errors ignorant
He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be counted among great men.
errors fool persevere
To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a fool.
plato men errors
By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much you value, than to be right in the company of such men.
philosophical men errors
Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.
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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